the mexican trackers found him by getting information from carla jean's mother (the "i got the cancer" lady). lewellen had told carla jean to meet him at the hotel, and carla jean must have told her mother. so when the "mexican in a suit" comes over to carla jean's mother to offer her help, he asks her where she's headed. they went to the motel to retrieve the money.

i'd say the only 'stretch' of my belief (ok beyond the usual 'beyond belief stuff in a movie') was that harrelson's character would just happen to start looking around the bridge (I won't say more so as to not make it too much of a spoiler). it just felt unlikely- otherwise this film all made sense to me.

i can understand that. i thought about that too, and here's what i came up with:

apparently, he's good at his job, and it was obvious that lewellen had gotten rid of the case somewhere between the border and the hospital, so he must have decided to check every place in between. the hospital couldn't have been that far from the border. plus, that may not have been the only place he checked, it's just the only place they showed him checking.

Thanks for reminding me about the "Mexican in a suit". And I agree with the above. I thought it rang very true. It is simple deduction really. It made me realize that "sugar" wasn't so much smart, but rather he was calm and logical when he needed to be. Woody's character WAS smarter... But smart isn't always enough in this world...

not a problem, glad to help.

what you said about chigurh is very true. he was so calm and logical about what he did that it removed virtually all trace of humanity from him.

by far one of the greatest villains in the past 10 years.

I've heard that complaint from a lot of people.

I loved the ending. Tommy Lee Jones telling those dream stories was great.

"I'm twenty years older now than he ever was, so when you see us, I'm the older man..." Brilliant.

Hell yeah! Brolin is on fiya'!

2007: Year of the Brolin.

Okay, I didn't want to crack into this thread until I had seen the film.

Best movie of the year (sorry, Gone Baby Gone), and one of my favorite movies in recent theatre memory.

I loved the ending; what a perfectly dark, chilling conclusion!

**SPOILERS**

I read an interesting theory on the mysterious scene towad the end where we see Tommy Lee Jones at one end of a hotel door, and Chugar at the other. Jones breaks in, but Chugar is not to be found. Well, there are several theories going around that place Chugar at a supernatural level, at least in some context. This is backed up as well by the many instances in the film where a character refers to him as a ghost, or some other such entity.

Well I read one analyzation that put Chugar out as "greed", personified. Notice that the two people that Chugar doesn't kill when he has the chance, the sheriff and gas station attendent, both confess to beig quite content with their lives.

Using this theory, it is possible that when the sheriff breaks into the hotel room and Chugar is not there, it is because he cannot see greed.

Anyway, I thought this was one interesting dig on the film.

That might of worked back when you were a kid, but now in most theaters they seperate the R movies and the PG-13/PG movies.

i think the only reason Chigurh didnt kill the gas station attendant is because he won the coin toss.