10 Movie Deaths That Totally Trolled Audiences

6. Llewelyn Moss - No Country For Old Men

The Coen brothers' Best Picture-winning masterpiece is a movie fully concerned with defying expectations and denying the audience the typical genre thrills they're hard-wired to anticipate.

The film is of course centred on hunter Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), who accidentally stumbles upon $2 million in the wake of a drug deal gone wrong, which puts him on the radar of Terminator-like assassin Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), who has been tasked with recovering the cash.

Conventional movie tropes suggest that the film is heading towards a bloody third act showdown between the two men, but the Coens being the Coens, they pull the rug out when audiences least expect it.

Moss ends up being killed by a random group of Mexicans who have been tailing him, and not only does this occur 20 minutes before the end of the movie, it happens off-screen and we only get to see Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) discover Moss' corpse.

Many viewers found Moss' death deeply unsatisfying, especially as Chigurh ends up getting away with the money and Bell is patently unable to try and stop him.

But given how much violence the Coens mete out prior, shying away from Moss' death is significant, as though they consider it enough of a foretold consequence of his actions that it doesn't even need to be shown.

As a reflection of the film's key themes of both chance and the inevitability of death, it's a bold and brilliant move, albeit one that understandably left more casual audiences completely unsatisfied.