Four Oscars. That’s how many awards this flick grabbed at the 80th Academy Awards. Best director, best adapted screenplay, best picture and best supporting actor. Must be one heck of a good movie to be able to pull a feat like that, I thought. But it fell a little bit short of that in my opinion. It was just ok for me. Above average but, not really excellent. I’m gonna put what I think in point form…

- storyline
20 minutes through the flick, I could already guess what to expect for the remaining of the 2 hours. A hunter discovers an aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong, absconds with the money and a bunch of baddies (assassins) go after him. Adventure ensues. You know, not enough surprises. That was sort of a let down for me. After watching the likes like “He Was A Quiet Man“, I know how surprises and unpredictability can do to enhance the experience. I felt that the plot’s too simple and linear – but then, this is an adaptation of a novel so, it’s already not much of a plot to begin with.

- cast and characters
good and bad, but it was alright for me generally. I don’t fucking know what significance does that Sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) character has in the movie apart from being a narrator and a confusing old fart that talks a lot of shit with an unconvincing accent. That was the down side.
The good side, has got to be the character of that main villain named Anton Chigurh (an assassin that was sent by a drug buyer to retrieve the missing/stolen money). You see the guy running in the poster there? He is skedaddling away from this crazy fuck. Chigurh was such a fucking badass in the flick. Has a very odd looking hairstyle that paints a false impression of douchebaggery but don’t let that fool you. Underneath that disguise of unforgivable look, he’s a cold blooded psycho that would kill anyone or anything he doesn’t like at all. Drug pushers, cops, assassins, innocent motorists, etc – he’d kill anything, even the person who hired him. No motive, just kill. Can’t get enough of him. This guy is fucking awesome. They should make a separate movie about him…

chigurh: “do you see me?”
(The actor who played Chigurh got the Best Supporting Actor)

- actions and effects
Lots of them, and they’re all very nice. Loved the gore, the blood, the gunshots. There’s a part where Chigurl had to dress his own gunshot wound from a shotgun (or was it a hollow point wound?) which I think is splendid (and he did it without a flinch – unlike that fucking sissy Rambo who squealed like a 6 year old getting an enema). Fair share of animal cruelty too – a few dead dogs (one was shown getting shot) and an intention to kill a bird (which I think was funny). There’s nothing more I could have asked for (though I’d advise to skip any part with Tommy Lee Jones in it – which I think most of them are redundant and out of place at times).

Over and all, I’d like to think of it as a serial killing plus action kind of hybrid flick. It’s all about Chigurh ruining people’s shit wherever he goes… and nobody can fuck around with him, right till the end of the story. It is all good for me except Tommy Lee Jones’ redundant parts and the unbelievably fucked up ending – which brought injustice to the quality of the whole plot, like a deck of cards.

This worths 7 out of 10 in my scale of awesomeness, but fell short of a Picture of The Year trophy… in my humble opinion.