Good solid acting along with an incredible story. A Masterpiece.

Rating: 10/10 (9 April 2014)

Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson have created one of the greatest movies of this time and perhaps of all time. There is so much ambition, brilliance, detail, and probably everything that you would put in a great movie. I don't think that anything, and anything could top this level of amazement for me. The film has put me through a cathartic and dogmatic experience by just watching. Truly outstanding on every level. A masterpiece One of the great things about this film is that it cannot be put in a specific genre, or cannot even be pinned down to what 3-4-5 different genres got mixed into the end result, because this film simply defies that question. It's too universal, complex, and humane to be categorized easily. It's not even an art film or a western exactly. It echoes classic Hollywood, but it's way more ambivalent and ambigous than that. It's definitely a highly artistic piece of periodic cinema from an American auteur in the age of postmodernism. I cannot define it much further.. I love the music throughout the film. It defines the energy. Just a masterpiece as far as I'm concerned. DDL morphs the character so well I can almost feel the aches and pains from years of hard work and injury.