There Will Be Blood (2007)
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Reviews Counted: 214
Fresh: 195 | Rotten: 19
Widely touted as a masterpiece, this sparse and sprawling epic about the underhanded "heroes" of capitalism boasts incredible performances by leads Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano, and is director Paul Thomas Anderson's best work to date.
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Critic Reviews: 47
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 2
Widely touted as a masterpiece, this sparse and sprawling epic about the underhanded "heroes" of capitalism boasts incredible performances by leads Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano, and is director Paul Thomas Anderson's best work to date.
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Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson steps outside his contemporary world of dysfunctional Angelenos to explore a very different dysfunctional man -- an oil pioneer whose trailblazing spirit is equaled only by his murderous ambition. There Will Be Blood is Anderson's loose adaptation of the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair, and it focuses its attentions on Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a miner who happens upon black gold during a disastrous excavation that ends in a broken leg. Pulling
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Cast
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Daniel Day-Lewis
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Paul Dano
Eli Sunday -
Kevin J. O'Connor
Henry -
Ciarán Hinds
Fletcher -
Dillon Freasier
H.W. Plainview -
Sydney McCallister
Mary Sunday -
David Willis
Abel Sunday -
David Warshofsky
H.M. Tilford -
Colton Woodward
William Bandy -
Colleen Foy
Adult Mary Sunday -
Russell Harvard
Adult H.W.
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All Critics (214) | Top Critics (47) | Fresh (205) | Rotten (19) | DVD (32)
This sometimes magnificent, decidedly strange film is a portrait of a terrible, rapacious man.
Top CriticOne 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.
Challenging and far from an easy watch, even those who do respond might take a couple of viewings to fully realise just how good it is, but there's little doubt that it's a modern masterpiece.
As a character study, There Will Be Blood is unsurpassed. Just don't expect to strike oil straight away.
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.
Audience Reviews for There Will Be Blood
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- Daniel Plainview: They should have put you in a glass jar on a mantlepiece.
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- H.M. Tilford: How's your boy?
- Daniel Plainview: Thank you for asking.
- H.M. Tilford: Is there anything we can do?
- Daniel Plainview: 'Thanks for asking' is enough.
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- Daniel Plainview: [to Eli] I told you I was going to eat you! I told you I was going to eat you up!
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- Daniel Plainview: I'm going to bury you underground, Eli.
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- Daniel Plainview: [to Paul Sunday] If I travel all the way there and find out that you're a liar, I'll find you and take more than my money back, is that alright with you?
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- Daniel Plainview: There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet! No one can get at it except for me!
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Yes - DDL is God and the cinematography and sense of place and time are uncanny but after a terrific opening hour this film just coughs and sputters.