From Salon’s review (emphasis mine):
Bardem’s character has an outlandishly made-up-sounding name, Anton Chigurh (Gesundheit!), but he stomps through the movie like a nameless ghost. He also wears one of the most absurd haircuts ever committed to film, a kind of Prince Valiant bob, minus the fringe. And he’s a nasty piece of work, all right: He kills ruthlessly and thoughtlessly, loading bullets into people’s heads seemingly just for kicks. Existentialist to the max, he tosses a coin to determine whether or not he’ll spare the life of the owner of a small convenience store.
I’d be much more inclined to see this movie if they acknowledged they were ripping off Two-Face. That particular detail has made every review I’ve seen, although none of the reviews I’ve read mentioned the repeat. That’s actually something I miss about Roger Ebert, he’d tend to note such rip-offs and praised Office Space when it acknowledged stealing an idea form Superman 3. Not that he really knows comics or anything, but Two-Face has been a major antagonist in a modern Batman movie.
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