Movie review “There will be blood”

I finally got around to seeing There Will Be Blood for the first time recently. It’s a long and slow movie; it’s more of a character study to me than a conventional story with a beginning, middle and end. The movie is based on Upton Sinclair’s “Oil,” which is itself loosely based on the life of Edward Doheny; in fact, it seems like they took the backstory/biographical information about Daniel Day Lewis’ character Daniel Plainview straight from Doheny’s life.

Daniel Day Lewis is simply unbelievable in this movie…this was the best acting I’ve seen in a movie since DeNiro was in his prime. It’s worth watching simply for his role…the rest is a bonus. This is movie of the year material to me.

“I have a competition in me…I want no one to succeed.”

~ by r3run on July 8, 2008.