INTELLIGENT, powerful - a genuinely superb piece of cinema, There Will Be Blood is worthy of all the hype and an entirely deserving candidate for Oscar glory later this month.
Boogie Nights director Paul Thomas Anderson has produced a bona fide masterpiece about greed and obsession that will rival the best of them.
Daniel Day-Lewis is excellent as Daniel Plainview, a silver prospector who turns his attentions to the oil business.
He and his adopted son H. W. (Dillon Freasier) travel to a small town in search of their fortune after hearing rumours the area is rich in black gold.
But Plainview finds the path to wealth is a rocky one, particularly when he meets opposition from Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), a larger than life preacher who is out to make sure he and his church benefit from any oil strike.
It's a complicated, often bizarre, but incredibly satisfying film with a knock out ending.
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Quite simply it's one of the finest movies you're likely to see for a long time.
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