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mesmerizing, May 15 2008
daniel day-lewis is genius. it is hard to take your eyes off this performance. the direction and attention to detail is fantastic. this is a film for film lovers. it's no popcorn flick. but if you appreciate art films, this is a gem.
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One of the best, and most important films of recent years, May 1 2011
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.
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Good Movie, April 19 2011
This is a very good movie based on the actual hisotic events surrounding the oil boom, its not a flashy movie, it's one that makes you think and reflect. This movie is not for everyone espesically if your looking for action and gore as the title may be a bit misleading for some... The only thing I was dissapointed in was the packaging, the flimsy carboard case with the DVD loosley placed in a cardboard sleeve which when I took it out was already scratched up a bit..
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