To me, the ending of the movie has to do with Tommy Lee Jones coming to accept that his place as Sheriff has come to a close and that this is "No Country for Old Men". He chased Bardem, and found him in the hotel room. Rather than escalate the fight when he knows Bardem is there in the room, he walks. His belief if that evil always exists and that the ending does not have to be with him confronting this evil. His discussion with his wife at the end about climbing the mountain to confront evil is his way of telling his wife he is letting it go, that he doesnt have to be the one to face down the evil.

Except everyone in this thread who apparently liked and "got" the movie is just re-posting the same shit written about it all over the internet -- real original thinking there.

Cory-

I hated the movie.
I loved FARGO, and O Brother from the COEN'S but I have to tell you I was so disappointed by the script as well as how the movie was shot.

It was Scene...cut. Scene, cut. Scene, cut.
No music whatsoever lent a creepy feel to the movie and had me in anticipation for almost two hours.

I just thought the action was all a giant let down.
Don't get me wrong, I do think the acting performances were superb.
Javier Bardem was amazing and Tommy Lee Jones is always fantastic.

I just don't get how that film won Best Picture.
I felt the same way about LA Confidential too when I saw it in the theater.

All these years later I still think LA Confidential sucked, it was a poor man's Chinatown.

"No Country" is "Natural Born Killers"

Except Oliver Stone is a better film maker
:)

Forget it,

Maybe they just agree with it, idiot.

Just because you're the lowest common denominator, doesn't mean everyone is.

it was a good movie, but it had been hyped up so much that I expected more. I actually enjoyed Fargo and The Big Lebowski more, but I guess that was because I had no expectations of those films.

Javier Bardem was excellent though, the scene at the gas station where he made the guy choose heads or tails was brilliant.

What did you want? Car chases? Explosions? A predictable story with uninteresting characters? More one liners? A happy ending?

It's funny that so many people are unsatisfied by originality, brilliant craftsmanship and characterisation.

i doubt it.. the film was an adaptation of a book by the same name and the directors (cohen brothers) were very loyal to the original story. The movie ended no different than the book. Theres nothing else to it.

Thanks for honest review... I was about to watch this movie.

I just got done watching it and loved it. To me much of it is about the reality that no matter how much we plan our lives they are still at the mercy of random acts. The guy that owns the store wins the coin toss and lives. What if he lost? He probably dies and his only crime is going to work that day. In the end when Anton is in the car wreck. He is mean, tough, smart and cold, yet a random car wreck nearly killed him and the random kindness of a kid may have kept him from getting caught. What if the deer that the guy shot had died right there? He wouldn't have tracked it and would have never found the crime scene or the money. It is random and shows that at any random moment evil can come into your life. Sometimes your actions can cause it to be worse and some times not. Had he just walked away from the scene, none of this would have happened, but he accepted it into his life and got what he was looking for.

I think Jones represents the common guy. He tries and wants to do the right thing, but eventually he comes to the reality that he can't stop things. He won't really make a difference and he decides to just keep his head down and hope for the best. That is what most of us do. We don't carry out acts of evil. We don't commit crimes. But we really do little to actually stop them, instead we accept that the world is a bad place, but work to make our home and our lives okay and try to forget what is beyond the doors of home.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but for me it really was about corruption, randomness and finally the realization that evil people will do evil things and there is little anyone can really do to stop it.