Technically Perfect, but Boring and Without Emotion

Rating: 7/10 (29 November 2009)

In 1898, the lonely mining explorer Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) finds silver nuggets in the shaft and a couple of years later her is in drilling business. When the young man Paul Sunday (Paul Dano) sells the information that there is oil in the lands of his family in Little Boston, California, Daniel travels with his son H.W. and buys the ranches in the area. He finds oil and brings prosperity to the locals and increases his fortune. Along the years, Daniel builds an empire but H.W. loses his audition; he meets a man that tells that he is his step brother; he faces the opposition of the preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) from the Church of Third Revelation. The powerful Daniel destroys his competitors but becomes lonely and insane in the end of the 20's.
The overrated "There Will Be Blood" is technically perfect, with awesome performance of Daniel Day-Lewis. Unfortunately the rise of the oil man Daniel Plainview is too long, boring and without emotion. This character is not well developed in the beginning, and during the first fifteen minutes there are no dialogs. The other characters come and go without any development. It would be better off watching the fantastic "Giant" again instead. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Sangue Negro" ("Black Blood")