10 Most Criminally Anti-Climactic Deaths In Film History

By Edward Owen /

9. Llewellyn Moss €“ No Country For Old Men

No Country For Old Men was thrilling, disquieting and singularly brilliant even among the Coen brothers€™ sparkling filmographies. Javier Bardem was a force of nature as Anton Chigurh, Acting like the grim reaper with a god-awful haircut as he hunted down Josh Brolin€™s Llewellyn Moss, you always feared what would happen when he caught up with the unfortunate bloke, yet for the most part Moss did a sterling job of delaying the inevitable. However, fate was always going to catch up with him some time. It€™s just a pity that we never go to see it. Wait, what? Yes, you read right €“ Llewellyn Moss dies off-screen, which must feature as probably one of the lamest deaths a movie character can suffer. The worst part was that we didn€™t get to see him die by Chigurh€™s hand in the awesome scene we all feared but wanted to see, because all the scenes where Chigurh kills a guy were so compelling. What happens to him instead is just a gut-puncher €“ he just gets killed by a truckload of angry Mexicans. That€™s meant to happen in regular crime films, not Coen brothers epics. I must admit, I felt slightly cheated, even though I knew it was a clever move on the Coens' part. I realise that the point was to eschew a Holywood-ised glamorous death, but that doesn€™t stop me feeling gutted about it.