Or: "There Will Be Greed". Dark, demanding male character study with a towering, but suffocating Day-Lewis.

Rating: 6/10 (27 November 2009)

Or: "There Will Be Greed"! Arresting, magnetic (but needlessly long and slow, with odd, seemingly unresolved passages) drama of ruthless American oil baron (Day-Lewis) through the 1890s - 1930s who, for the sake of his obsession of exploiting a small California township rich with oil, sends off his deafened son, kills a man claiming to be his brother and fakes a Christian baptism... among other things!
No history piece or Americana, but a dark, demanding and unusually complex male character study, with Day-Lewis' Oscar-winning performance a towering, multi-faceted centerpiece. Present in as good as every scene, he virtually eclipses and suffocates all the other characters, which becomes as much a benefit as a burden to Paul Thomas Anderson's script on the destructive forces of greed. Also, that concentration displays the frustrating Hollywood habit of the lack of female characters - not only here...
6 out of 10 from Ozjeppe