A really bad movie

Rating: 2/10 (22 July 2008)

I sat there slack-jawed watching this movie. How in the world did it received an academy award nomination? How did Daniel Day-Lewis winning an Oscar for doing an annoying imitation of Clint Eastwood imitation of John Huston in "White Hunter Black Heart." I was going to write a long detailed review, explaining why this was such a dreadful movie. But it isn't worth the effort. It's hard to know what was the worst part. There is the the interminably slow and utterly boring first half that goes on and on with out advancing the the story. Then is the bizarre and totally out-of-place. I guess the winner is the absurd final half hour of purely irrational behavior by Plainview. The movie makes no sense, dramatically, psychologically or rationally. And it's boring.