An Incredible Story of Ambition vs Faith

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2014)

There Will Be Blood is one of the best films of the 2000's. The great Daniel Day-Lewis gives us (at least in my opinion) his best performance with his portrayal of the ambitious oil pioneer Daniel Plainview. So determined and greedy is Plainview, he goes to the length of even proclaiming his adopted and deafened son HW his competition and an enemy after HW wants to follow in his father's footsteps and start his own drilling company. An incredible story is also told of how entrepreneurship and ambition clash with the old-fashioned, faith based values of the traditional priest Paul/Eli Sunday, who was played by Paul Dano.
The film also has many great scenes, but it has one of the most memorable scenes of the 2000's. Anyone who has seen what happened in Plainview's bowling alley and has heard Plainview make that sucking sound and utter those famous words, "I, drink, your, MILKSHAKE. I DRINK IT UP!" has most likely had that sound and those words stuck in their heads after watching it, myself being one. As much as I liked No Country for Old Men, I also believe There Will Be Blood should have won the Oscar for Best Picture. A truly great work of art.