There Will Be Money

Rating: 9/10 (23 June 2008)

What a crazy, creepy, memorable film experience! Daniel Day-Lewis, building on the role he played in "Gangs of New York", is the scariest dude this side of the corporate machine! I don't know if this film is even giving a scathing criticism of oil or capitalism. Maybe it's just providing a super-exaggerated (or ultra-concentrated) archetype of the insane colonial-capitalist quest for power and wealth (in this case symbolized by oil). 'Coz what better symbolizes greed than the story of a hell-bent oil-man? Nuttin' else, that's what.
Music is pretty good, by one of the dudes from Radiohead. So all you hipsters should be wetting your pants at the thought of the soundtrack. The music is pretty caustic and frenetic all throughout, very intense and consuming. Additionally, the font used on the film's box and poster art is totally metal, so all you metalheads should find something attractive as well! Very nice aesthetic choices all around.
This film is like, 2.5 hours or something, but it never lets up. It is non-stop, smooth-flowing horror the whole way through. Not horror in the blatant, gory way. Horror as in, you are absolutely captivated in the built-up fear that the characters revel in. And there's hardly a likable one among them. And yet, they're all completely mesmerizing.
8.5