First film of the Coen Brothers production I decided to watch out of the list I have been given. A film I initially thought would be a good watch, and it was until the main man in the story dies. I enjoyed the suspense of the chase all the way through and thought there was going to be either a big shoot out or for there to be a twist at the end.The film starts with a tall man in black being taking in by a police patrol on a highway. The tall man kills the cop by strangling him with his handcuffs. He escapes with a police car but not rushed or hurried but in a calm and careless sense. Another bloke who starts the film off by shooting deer in the outback stumbles across a crazed shootout, where everyone has shot each other. He looks in the back of a truck to find it full of drugs, and goes off to find ‘the last man standing’. He tracks him down to a guy dead under a tree with a case full of money. He takes the money and goes back to a trailer park where he lives. This all kicks the film of with a great suspense and suspicion and draws you in to want to watch more. For the most of the film this tall man in black is chasing down the guy with the money who is also being chased down by the Mexicans. Towards the end of the film the guy with the money gets randomly killed and shot, with no build up or suspense not even a long shoot out scene. One minute he’s alive, next scene he’s dead. For the rest of the film (30mins or so) the tall man in black goes to the wife’s address and tells her to flip a coin, she kindly denies. The next scene all you see is the tall man in black leave her address. Now the tall man in black is driving down a road and is involved in a car accident where he breaks his arm. He walks away calmly from the scene of the accident and then the film ends. Leaving it totally up in the air and leaving me totally baffled as to what the hell happened. I was disappointed and annoyed at the fact that they killed off the main actor, I was hopeing there would be some sort of twist for him dying but it never happened.
A disappointing ending to say the least, was annoyed at the fact nothing really summed up. The film ended with everything wide open, and was asking myself way too many questions. Where had the money and drugs gone? Who killed the main story guy? What happened to the wife? What happened to the killer? I wouldn’t recommend this film to anyone who needs an ending that finalises everything otherwise you’ll just get annoyed as I have.
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