There Will Be Blood (2007) 6/10

Starring : Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciaran Hinds, Russell Harvard, Kevin J O’Connor
Director : Paul Thomas Anderson
Running Time : 158 mins

Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) is a silver miner who, upon discovering oil in one of his mines, changes tack and travels to California where he learns he can buy oil rich land on the cheap. Using the false image of being a devout family man, Plainview convinces the locals to allow him to dig their land in return for the false promise of building schools and improving the community, but meets competition in the form of reverend Eli Sunday (Dano).

Although this was an intriguing movie, with Day-Lewis playing one of the best anti-heroes of all time, I really found it difficult to get into. The pacing was extraordinarily slow, and the story line took a very long time to reach the point. This is probably only worth watching if you are very patient and can deal with waiting nearly two and a half hours for something exciting to happen.

You’ll like this if you liked : No Country For Old Men