Oh, There Will Be Boredom

Rating: 4/10 (8 June 2008)

Don't believe the hype. I was definitely interested in the film, and eager to watch when I grabbed a copy of it. The PG rating threw me off, in knowing it had a major villain in it, and with the title "There Will Be Blood", but from the good ratings I was still very intrigued.
But throughout the 2hrs and near 30min of this movie, I realized it was definitely not as exciting as I thought it would be. Sure, a few scenes such as the oil-explosion scene were intense, and seeing Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) completely throw his son away as he leaves him on a train concreted him as a villain, but with high expectations after seeing No Country For Old Men, it was rather a dull movie.
Javier Bardem's "Anton Chigurh" character in No Country For Old Men is a far more exciting and cold character than Mr. Plainview is. There Will Be Blood is dragged out and should really be maybe between an hr and two. The director drags on scenes for minutes for no importance other than to attempt and make it powerful. I like the idea, but doing it in every scene makes the movie seem overly long.
All in all, it was a good dramatic film for anyone looking for a long, somewhat meaningful movie of a selfish man not caring about anything except power. Ones looking for an action movie or anything from a boring-2hr-30min-drama should not decide on this film, but rather a far more riveting movie in the Coen Brothers' No Country For Old Men.