10 Endings That Make Movies Impossible To Rewatch

10. Tommy Lee Jones' Aimless Dreams - No Country For Old Men

Almost everything about the Coen Brothers’ adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s book No Country for Old Men is pretty much perfect in every way – the bleak desert landscape, its neo-Western and film noir elements and its moments of ultra-violence – but after a couple of hard-hitting hours watching Javier Bardem’s psychopathic hitman Anton Chigurh chase in over his head opportunist Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) across the Texan desert for a bag of stolen drug money, audiences didn’t quite get the payoff they were hoping for.

Not only does Llewelyn’s inevitable death take place off-screen, the film concludes with a weirdly abrupt, seemingly out of place closing scene in which Tommy Lee Jones’s craggy, world-weary sheriff talks about his mystical dreams. Though it stayed true to its source material (McCarthy’s novel ends pretty much the same way), it felt a tad like an artsy-fartsy non-resolution designed to go over audience’s heads that might have benefited from a bit of deviation from the source.