There Will Be Blood
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Movie Reviews of There Will Be Blood
Movie Review: There's gold in them their broken leg.
Summary: 5 Stars
The first thing about my review that you will notice is that I do not use the characters names or describe what event it is that I am talking about. I do make it clear to you, once you've seen this movie, exactly what event I'm talking about. I deem it absolutely necessary not to give any of this movie away in my review as to keep the integrity of the movie in tact. That, in itself, should tell you how great this movie is. This, in my opinion is Day's best movie since he made My Left Foot. The movie starts off slow enough in the beginning, so much so that my wife and I almost turned it off. But after the initial 10 minutes of the movie (which there are no sounds or words), it picked up speed and stayed in the NASCAR hunt for the flag in the way of speed and flow of this movie. This one, once it gets moving, stays interesting as we follow the oil baron through his highs and lows of being a ruthless oil baron. The ending as with the rest of the movie, was well thought out and brought to us, the movie goer, in a Hope Diamond type of ending. That is to say that it is absolutely a magnificent ending where all of the main characters demon's finally come back to haunt him to the point of total ruin.
In closing I would like to emplore you to rent or buy this movie and watch it one night when your angry and spiteful. This movie will meet your anger and spite head on, and leave you feeling glad that your anger will subside even when his never did.
I bid you angry and spiteful watching and may your heart recover it's happiness even though his didn't.
Xilocane
Movie Review: awful
Summary: 1 Stars
Hard to believe this film was celebrated as one of the best of the year.
It is uninspired, with bad performances, a very superficial photography.
It hurts what a Terrence Malick woud have done with this sujet! Danel Day Lewis is a great actor but how managed Anderson to turn him into the worst performance of his career.
Movie Review: Entertaining, thoughtful and poignant...
Summary: 4 Stars
Whether you are a Lewis fan or not you can not help but enjoy this picture.
The plot is simple enough, but the execution of it is a masterpiece of subtle insight and pristine truthfulness into the human condition.
This is one of the all too infrequent breed of movies which is so multi-faceted in its human element, refined and yet with raw and unfiltered boldness as it lays out emotion and character motivations with unhurried bravery, that it sneaks up on you and surrounds you before you realize it.
Whether to explore the historical perspective, to enjoy the lead actor or simply to revel in the well executed totality of a carefully crafted film--you owe it to yourself to see this movie.
Movie Review: Modern mythology
Summary: 5 Stars
"There Will Be Blood" is one of those dark, disturbing and insistent stories that compels you to watch, even when you'd rather turn away to a sunnier subject. It reminds me of "Chinatown" with its unsentimental view of the past and sinister subtexts. It's more than a story of greed and commerce in expanding late 19th century America; it traces a man's ambition to get whatever he wants at whatever cost.
Such a universal theme is usually to be found in Shakespeare, and requires an actor with enough emotional heft to pull it off. Daniel Day Lewis is as hard as stone in the role of Daniel Plainview, the driven oil prospector who sacrifices everything on his way up (or is it down?).
The film has a number of scenes that show how far Plainview will go to achieve his dream, but the one that clinched it for me was the oil derrick fire, drawn out in an almost agonizing pace by the director and stoked up by a mesmerizing score. Plainview and his crew, having unplugged an underground cache of oil, scramble to contain a flare-up that threatens to destroy both men and machinery. The scene starts at dusk, and as night falls, the combination of flames and inky black sky heighten the drama. With very little dialogue, the actors play out a modern myth: Prometheus bringing down the sacred fire. It's a chilling scene when Plainview, staring out of oil-streaked eyes at the derrick, mutters to his assistant that the rig is OK, but that his son (injured in the initial explosion), isn't. You can see the calculations that Plainview makes throughout his career that eventually catch up with him.
There's so much in the way of film surprises that it would be best to see it for oneself. I highly recommend this movie.
Movie Review: An overall waste of time.
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie was slow, boring, and full of nonsense characters. I don't understand how people could praise a movie devoid of story, plot, and characters who make any sort of sense.
I watched it twice just to see if I missed something, but no it really was as bad as I thought it was.
The lead character did things that contradicted actions earlier on in the film. I haven't read Oil! but if the writing is as bad as the movie, i'm shocked it was ever published. All the film people who suckered me into getting this movie can stick it, and no its not that I don't "get it." The cinematography may have been good but if I wanted something to look at I would go to an art museum. When I watch a movie I want story and hopefully some good characters to act the story out. I guess movies are just like the art world where once you make something good you can put anything on the screen and be praised. I usually like Paul Thomas Anderson, But unlike Boogie Nights and Magnolia this film is an oily turd.