"huh" pretty much says it all.

Rating: 1/10 (19 February 2008)

I believe this is reminiscent of The Emporer's New Clothes. There is so much Oscar talk that to say you hated the movie would be tantamount to showing how much sophistication you lack because you didn't "get" it.
Long and slow is not necessarily a bad thing except when there is no point whatsoever.
There is absolutely no redeeming quality in the Daniel Day-Lewis character, which again is fine. There are plenty of hateful characters in the movies that we still love to watch. But this character is just plain angry, hateful, cheats and disrespects pretty much everyone he comes in contact with. There is no rhyme nor reason to this character's anger and hatred of mankind. You get no insight into what fostered all this animosity.
The story goes absolutely no where and the ending left pretty much everyone in the theater going.. "Huh". Everyone had the same dumbfounded look on their face.
In short, I could never recommend this movie to anyone.