A brilliant and powerful film from a GREAT American film maker

Rating: 10/10 (31 December 2007)

What a sensational film from Paul Thomas Anderson and performances from Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Dano that jump right off the screen and grab you with emotion and power. The opening scenes setting up the theme and the character of Daniel Day Lewis are totally brilliant and so well photographed and followed by the scenes with the baby boy that are too beautiful for words. The cinematography is breathless, and the sets are so accurate to the period and to the drama of drilling for oil.
When Dano and Lewis confront one another in scene after scene, the ending of the film is one to remember in the role of "good vs. evil". Another tremendous factor that plays such an important role in THERE WILL BE BLOOD is the musical score that ebbs and builds to add to character and theme and makes this film the best one of 2007. From BOOGIE NIGHTS to MAGNOLIA, Paul Thomas Anderson has delivered in THERE WILL BE BLOOD his best and most dramatic film with performances that are Oscar worthy in every sense. Bring on the Globes and Oscars.