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A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip-off that there’s a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads with his son, H.W. (Dillon Freasier), to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town, where the main excitement centers around the holy roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But even as the well raises all of their fortunes, nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value – love, hope, community, belief, ambition and even the bond between father and son – is imperiled by corruption, deception and the flow of oil.
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Screen Format: Widescreen/ Color
Language: English
CRITIC REVIEWS
LEW IRWIN
Already showered with awards from critics groups, There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Dillon Freasier, is opening in New York and Los Angeles today to universal acclaim. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times describes Day-Lewis's performance as "thrilling ... among the greatest I've seen, purposefully alienating and brilliantly located at the juncture between cinematic realism and theatrical spectacle." She also has high praise for the director, Paul Thomas Anderson. "It proves a breakthrough for him as a filmmaker," she writes. Overall, she concludes, the film is "a consummate work of art. ... It reveals, excites, disturbs, provokes, but the window it opens is to human consciousness itself." Lou Lumenick in the New York Post writes that Day-Lewis delivers "the best movie performance so far this century." And Anderson's direction, he adds, "reaches for comparisons with Citizen Kane and Giant and often achieves them." The combination of Anderson and Day-Lewis is "an ideal match," writes Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times. He points out however that the Upton Sinclair novel on which it is based was intended "for political purpose more than for dramatic effect so that the movie "has a weakness for the didactic." Nevertheless, he concludes, "in its willingness to push everything, even personality, to extremes, this is a film with the defects of its virtues, so it's fortunate that those virtues are very great indeed."
Reviewed by: saturday628 on 6/29/2008 2:58:24 PM
Very good flick about greed, obsessive behavior and trying to sell a false bill of goods to those that are naive enough to buy.Better than most of the movie garbage out there.
LEW IRWIN
Already showered with awards from critics groups, There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Dillon Freasier, is opening in New York and Los Angeles today to universal acclaim. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times describes Day-Lewis's performance as "thrilling ... among the greatest I've seen, purposefully alienating and brilliantly located at the juncture between cinematic realism and theatrical spectacle." She also has high praise for the director, Paul Thomas Anderson. "It proves a breakthrough for him as a filmmaker," she writes. Overall, she concludes, the film is "a consummate work of art. ... It reveals, excites, disturbs, provokes, but the window it opens is to human consciousness itself." Lou Lumenick in the New York Post writes that Day-Lewis delivers "the best movie performance so far this century." And Anderson's direction, he adds, "reaches for comparisons with Citizen Kane and Giant and often achieves them." The combination of Anderson and Day-Lewis is "an ideal match," writes Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times. He points out however that the Upton Sinclair novel on which it is based was intended "for political purpose more than for dramatic effect so that the movie "has a weakness for the didactic." Nevertheless, he concludes, "in its willingness to push everything, even personality, to extremes, this is a film with the defects of its virtues, so it's fortunate that those virtues are very great indeed."
Reviewed by: saturday628 on 6/29/2008 2:58:24 PM
Very good flick about greed, obsessive behavior and trying to sell a false bill of goods to those that are naive enough to buy.Better than most of the movie garbage out there.
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Reviewed by: saturday628 on 6/29/2008 2:58:24 PM
Very good flick about greed, obsessive behavior and trying to sell a false bill of goods to those that are naive enough to buy.Better than most of the movie garbage out there.
(Read More Customer Reviews...)Reviewed by: lessthancharmed on 6/18/2008 11:31:10 AM
Day-Lewis distinguishes himself as possibly the most talented actor of our time. The story of a jaded man accomplishing his goals but losing out on all else that matters in life drives home a haunting lesson to the ambitious and a caution to the successful... sometimes we don't know what's best for us.
Reviewed by: cinnamongirl1 on 4/16/2008 6:47:16 AM
I love Daniel Day Lewis, and his acting was wonderful in this film. The movie was just strange and a few days later I am still wondering what the point was...
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