Do we like Anton Chigurh?
A character from No Country for Old Men (2005 (novel), 2007 ()
Our score: 0 out of 10. No. He kills almost anyone who crosses his path, and he's polite about it. He's gripping to watch but you wouldn't want to meet him.
Chigurh appears in Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel and the Coen brothers' 2007 film. A welder named Llewelyn Moss finds a drug deal gone wrong in the desert, and he takes a case of money. Chigurh is sent to get it back, and an aging sheriff trails them both.
He is less a person than a force. He's patient, soft-spoken and unnervingly calm, and critics often compare him to an unstoppable bogeyman. He has a strange personal philosophy about fate, and he sometimes leaves a victim's life to a coin toss.
He scores zero because he's the story's embodiment of merciless, random violence. His odd code of honor and dark humor make him unforgettable, but he never shows anything we'd want to back. Javier Bardem won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing him.