Clinically cold

Rating: 7/10 (25 August 2008)

This movie awakens mixed feelings. In the abysmal state of the now days American cinematography, we should applaud and praise with unrestrained joy any spark of creativity and artistic courage. And as much as I am in dire need of applauding and rejoicing, I have some serious quibbles with this movie." There will be blood", the epic about oil, money, and religion as defining powers of American history, should've been a powerhouse of passion and gut-wrenching emotion. Alas, this movie is slow, aloof and clinically cold. Its characters don't seem to this viewer as larger than life figures as they had to be to survive the conditions they lived in. They seem more like timid lab rats awaiting next horror that life might impose upon them.Things happen to them instead of making things happen for them. And that is when it all loses its allure. Imperfect movie of a very talented director. Still eons away from average Hollywood dross. Thanks for that.