Good in a lot of ways, but not a future classic, in my mind

Rating: 8/10 (8 October 2008)

I think that this movie surpassed a lot of films on a symbolic level, and Daniel Day Lewis did a great job portraying a psychotic oil man, but the plot did not make that much sense to me. And the music was too much like Dvorak for my taste. Not really avant, but just as disturbing. Actually that would be an insult to Dvorak. So, it just sort of ground along, providing disturbance to the point that I became bored with the disturbance. In the end, the man who pretended to be a born again to advance his monetary gain, killed the church, which was not so very deep and moving by the end. By the time the end came, it seemed almost cliché or even comical.
So, I am glad that I didn't pay to see this in the theater, because I would have been upset. At least now I can say that I have seen it, in case I go to a party full of pretentious people who think that it was deep and moving.
And I love Daniel Day Lewis, so it pains me to say this stuff.