[innerSpaceman]

Oh, I agree. Jones's Sheriff was what the movie was about.

Spoiler:

I guess I just wish he would have found out it's no country for old men after having some contact with the overblown and out-of-control evil of modern times, rather than simply arriving too late.

zapppop hated that the scene Jones was too late for happened off screen, but I liked that ambiguity and the message it relayed to me.

But what seemed to me to be the "message" of the film, concisely delivered in the title, did not - in my mind - really play out in the film. Or not enough to satisfy me at any rate.