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A brutal, bloody, and gripping saga of obsession, corruption, and poisonous greed; Paul Thomas Anderson's Award Winning There Will Be Blood is a masterly, unwavering inspection of a consummately evil man whose trailblazing spirit is equalled only by his murderous ambition.
In the dying years of the nineteenth century Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a struggling silver miner, realises that true wealth lies in oil extraction. Driven by a passionate hatred for others and an intense psychological need to see competitors fail, he heads for the oil-rich land of California in a bid to manipulate and exploit the landowners of dust-worn Little Boston in to selling him their properties. Forefront of the town is self-styled `faith healer' Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) who is structuring his own sinister plan to funnel the residents' impending wealth into his self-founded church. As Plainview's empire expands, so does his obsession with the intrinsic value of power and he becomes increasingly irascible and paranoid along the way. What follows is a vindictive, ruthless, and violent chain of events as Plainview fails to deliver on promises as he pits himself against the town's perturbed and unstable charismatic teenage preacher.
In addition to stunning visuals and an exceptional, captivating score from accomplished composer (and Radiohead guitarist) Jonny Greenwood, director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia) owes his best work to date to the incredible Academy Award winning performance as Plainview by Daniel Day-Lewis and the staggering portrayal of Eli Sunday by Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine). Bearing similarities to Citizen Kane and Giant, There Will Be Blood is an intelligent, thought-provoking, and powerfully-eccentric epic masterpiece that is as enchanting as it is timeless.

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bodybagz | 21/04/2009 | See all bodybagz's reviews (15) »
Uncomfortable soundtrack, brill acting from day lewis and cast....
Dramatic landscapes what else do you want
There Will Be Grimness....
Wicket55 | 14/03/2009 | See all Wicket55's reviews (27) »
Regardless of whether you like this film or not, it will remain a talking point for quite awhile yet, and it's this divided opinion and Daniel Day Lewis' relentless and intense performance that essentially makes this movie so memorable. If you thought he was brilliantly evil as Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York, you ain't seen nothing yet!
I think reviews of this film have been somewhat harsh and over critical. The film should be best viewed as being an obsessive character study of a deeply disturbed man whose sole motivation for power and money ultimately end up destroying him. Like a very grim version of Citizen Kane in a way! And Citizen Kane wasn't exactly a laugh riot either!
Strangely reminscent of Kubrick's "The Shining" in parts, particularly Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood's haunting soundtrack and Day Lewis' psychotic yet compulsively watchable oilman, this is essential just for Daniel Day Lewis' performance alone.
Long silences, still photography and very weak story. Poor.
godvalen | 04/03/2009 | See all godvalen's reviews (88) »
On screen detail is amazing with this blue-ray but the story is awful. You will be bored, you may fall asleep but guaranteed you will walk away thinking you have just wasted 2 hours of your life.
The story can be summed up in 2 sentences. The movie was far too long. Acting was good, but no matter how good the acting was it would never make the story any better.
Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Russell Harvard & Kevin J. O'Connor | |
15 years and over | |
2007 | |
Widescreen | |
English - Dolby Digital (5.1) | |
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