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This sometimes magnificent, decidedly strange film is a portrait of a terrible, rapacious man.
One of the most wholly original American movies ever made.
There Will Be Blood establishes itself as a film of Darwinian ferocity, a stark and pitiless parable of American capitalism.
Daniel Day-Lewis bestrides the narrow world like a colossus as Daniel Plainview, a turn-of-the-last-century prospector for gold and silver who stumbles upon oil in rural California and goes after it with the ferocity, focus, and ethical sensitivity of a f
Someday, we're probably going to look back at There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic about greed, lies, manipulation and insanity, and call it his masterpiece.
It's oil, and a West that was just discovering it, that makes There Will Be Blood intriguing. But it's Day-Lewis who draws us in.
Who suggested the John Huston accent? We keep expecting Daniel Plainview to molest a young niece or something.
Anderson's vision is uncompromising and razor sharp. Nothing in his first four features quite prepares us for the precision and vicious wit displayed here.
There will be blood, indeed
In a way, there's not a step you haven't seen in classics going as far back as Citizen Kane. Still, there are enough oddities in the details to keep you full of questions.
This is a film by Paul Thomas Anderson that has overshot the runway of movie modernity with something thrillingly, dangerously new.
It takes a talented person to make a great film, but it takes an even more talented one to know when to say enough is enough.
It's a biblical parable about America's failure to square religion and greed. But most of all it is a marvellously entertaining soap: a sort Dickens does Dallas, without the sex or swimming pools.
If Day-Lewis isn't front and center, the film drags with themes such as oil vs. religion, and greed is always around...
Anderson has truly made an old fashioned, great American movie. Not to be missed!!!
One helluva film; the best in Anderson's young career.
Epic American oil saga is brilliant but mature.
a requiem for human decency, trampled beneath the onslaught of capitalism, progress, and a heightened sense of purpose that becomes a twisted justification for personal excess
Plainview's character is unchanging, and Day-Lewis's dour portrayal becomes somewhat tiresome going on for so long as it does. (Blue-ray Edition)
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