Superb

Rating: 10/10 (30 December 2007)

There Will Be Blood is the first movie that I leave behind a user comment. A movie this powerful is completely worth sharing to others and urging them to watch it. It is hard to compete with the Coen brother's masterpiece "No Country for Old Men", but this movie, without a doubt, is as incredible as this film, or even more. Much accolade has been given to Daniel Day Lewis's awesome performance, but the movie is in, all respects, a cinematic achievement. I was very skeptical that this movie was compared to Citizen Kane, but the character of Daniel Plainview made the comparison to Orson Welles's Kane more than appropriate. There Will Be Blood was a film that consumed the viewer. Above all, this film captured the emotional baggage of hatred. You feel consumed watching the development of Daniel Plainview's character. You see both the change in his demeanor but, more striking, his physical appearance. I told my friends who came to watch the sneak preview of this film that it felt theatrical but not in a bad way whatsoever. The experience of theatre is emotionally penetrating. Thus, to capture this element of theatrics in a non-live film is absolutely amazing. I have no other things to add that others have already said about the film. But you will regret if you hold out on watching this film. Truly an epic film.