Not Nearly as Good as You May Think

Rating: 3/10 (24 July 2009)

While I like Daniel Day-Lewis's performance in this movie (and he was the main reason I watched it), I was "very" disappointed with the movie. The movie was way too slow, too many boring, meaningless scenes, had very little action, and an abrupt ending. It almost seemed to me that the director wanted to make this film in the Sergio Leone style of "Once Upon a Time in the West", with scenes that are extremely long and slow. But he's no Sergio Leone! Not even close.
This was one of the few movies that I've seen in my life that, half-way through the movie, I didn't want to watch the rest of it! If you want to see Daniel Day-Lewis's performance, then "Gangs of New York" and "The Last of the Mohicans" are far better movies. The only reason somebody would really want to watch this movie would be if they wanted to see what it was like when the pioneers of oil drilling did their business in the early 1900's. That's it! (It could have been done in just half an hour!)