There Will Be Blood
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Movie Reviews of There Will Be Blood
Movie Review: An extraordinary American story
Summary: 5 Stars
Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis), a man filled with hatred and disdain for the human race, spends his life sucking oil from the ground and amassing a fortune. His power and wealth allow him to look down on the rest of humanity, but cannot protect him from his own self-contempt.
Paul Thomas Anderson's epic film is a deeply cynical meditation on two forces that defined the rise of America, entrepreneurialism and religion. It features great performances and a magnificent evocation of the oil fields of the West during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There are many fascinating aspects of this film, but the most interesting may be Plainview's lifelong enmity toward the charismatic preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), whose flock represents for Plainview all that is gullible and foolish in people. The two men humiliate each other in several remarkable scenes, most notably the one in which Plainview is coerced into joining the church in order to gain some land rights; it's a tour de force performance from Day Lewis. Jonny Greenwood's extraordinary, unique soundtrack is unexpected but totally appropriate. I'm sure that this rich film will reward many repeat viewings.
Movie Review: There Will Never Be Bad Acting....
Summary: 5 Stars
....not when Daniel Day_Lewis is involved. Seriously, I had to put off writing this review for a couple of weeks because I was speechless. Once again Mr. Day-Lewis takes complete control. This is a great movie... Even better than I could ever describe. The story is great, the directing and scenery... it's all great. But the acting is out of this world. A lot of people said this is a slow and long movie, yet I was captivated from the very first second. When it was over I felt like it only lasted a few minutes. At first I couldn't figure out what was going on... was the main character a caring and feeling man? Did he truly love his son? I don't want to give anything away, but let's just say that this movie had me going back and forth the entire time until the very end. The film has everything I love... especially the whole God debate. I truly enjoyed this movie and it is worth probably about 12 stars. Let's face it, we are lucky to live in this period where, in my opinion, we are treated to the greatest actor in history making films for us to see. This movie and Daniel Day-Lewis are perfect as perfect can be. There Will Be Blood is absolutely a movie you should own. Oh, you gotta see this!Movie Review: One of the best, and most important films of recent years
Summary: 5 Stars
If the early Paul Thomas Anderson seemed to be channeling the young hyper-energetic Martin Scorsese, 'There Will Be Blood' - a more quiet and thoughtful, but no less amazing and cinematic work - shows Anderson working in the vein of Stanley Kubrick. In place of a hyperactive camera, there is now a coldly, brilliantly observational one. In place of empathetic if damaged characters there are now people drowning in their own poison and lies.
He has created a film both boldly theatrical and subtly real, both broadly political and intensely personal. Complicated and intentionally confusing emotionally, with a protagonist gradually subsumed by greed, the film is full of ideas and themes, but feels more mature and focused than Anderson's earlier work, brilliant as that all was. Daniel Day Lewis is amazing, the film looks incredible (if simply shot for an Anderson film), one only sees more and more layers and meanings on repeated viewings.
One of the more important films of recent years, this critique of the American dream - both personal, and by extension national - of success, of conquest, and of control is mesmerizing, and ultimately devastating.
Movie Review: Excellent movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent movie with an excellent leading man. Daniel Day-Lewis definitely proved he deserved the Oscar he won for his role as Daniel Plainview. He did such an amazing job with his performance...I mean everything right down to the movement of his mouth and the twinges and ticks and squinting, everything! Paul Dano did well as Eli Sunday, and he was so creepy and perfect for his part. Ciaran Hinds also has a supporting role, and I was so happy to see him again. He's one of my favorite actors. The movie wasn't slow-going, but it was slow in the beginning. It spanned several years in the early 20th century when everyone was on the quest for oil. I liked the story of the two main characters striving for wealth and power by the same means but for two very different goals. It was interesting to watch this movie develop and "finish"... I know the ending was kind of sickening, but I liked it and thought it was actually kind of funny. The ending really made the movie for me.Movie Review: Plainview is a completely free man
Summary: 5 Stars
As far as the mechanical, "I'm sitting here watching a movie" part, this movie is successful. It's beautifully shot, the music is bizarre but fitting for its topic, and the plot is thick enough to carry any semi-attentive viewer to the end. And the end pays off, big time. All that is secondary to the insanely good acting, though.
The actors that play Plainview's "son" and "brother" put in great performances, but Daniel Day Lewis is absurdly good in this role. It seems like DDL creates an unforgettable character in every movie he does, but this Plainview character is beyond anything else I've seen, other than maybe Deniro's Travis Bickle. Even in full psychopath mode, it's difficult to say that Plainview is merely a psychopath, or even that what he is doing is wrong. He is just a man free of all restraints -- social, familial, religious, even self-preservational. The way DDL pulls this off, without making the character hateful, is some kind of genius.