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The ending for "No Country for Old Men" was perfect.
Spoiler:
The point of the movie was NOT to catch the Shugere because the movie was overall symbolic. Here is the best explaination that I'ver heard:
Shugere [sic] represents violence/death. He comes without warning, and the only way in which you can escape him is through luck. He is remorseless and cares only about obtaining his goal, which is more violence. The sheriff represents the attempt to cage that violence, to stop it. In the end the sheriff quits, because he realizes that there is something within man that he cannot stop, that he cannot contain, and that fighting it is pointless. He realizes that fighting it is delusional and that the only people who can understand it are the old, or the insane, who have lost their idealism. He quits because his ideal has died. The country is the ideal, the belief in good is the ideal. Llewlyn believed that he could make good in the world, and he loses. He believed he could escape Shugere, and does but at the price of his life. He believed in "the country". That country is no place for old men because they have lost their idealism. Shugere doesn't die because, from the author's view (McCarthy) he is pure and has no delusions. But even he does not come out unscathed because the promise of death exists even for him. He wins in fact because he is emotionless and driven only by his needs and not the silly trappings of morality. It's horribly cynnical, but IMO honest.
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