Stupendously abysmally horrendously boring!

Rating: 6/10 (21 July 2009)

If Daniel Day Lewis would not have played this role as a titan of the screen, I would have abandoned watching the movie from somewhere at the first hour. Instead, I watched all 2 hours and 40 minutes of complete and utter nothingness!
Let me dispel some misbeliefs that you might have. If you think this is like a darker Dallas, where oil competitors are outsmarting each other, think again. There is nothing smart in the behaviour of the characters and almost no killing. Is it some gory piece of Scarface mutilation? Not at all.
All that this movie is doing is showing how one man is slowly creating an oil company from nothing, while losing any humanity he might have had. You may know the type, smallish angry people that care less about their own success than about the lack of success of others. You will be watching this man for 160 minutes and start wishing for that darn blood!
Bottom line: you will look at the screen and scream "what the...?". My advice, don't watch it.