Wasted 3 hours, why not waste some more time for an IMDb comment?

Rating: 1/10 (27 December 2008)

What is this thing doing in the top 250? That fact alone forced me to register and comment on this movie.
Okay, it's not THAT bad. But it's certainly not worth the high praises many others are giving it. There will be many "sheep" giving a 10, and many others giving a 1 to counter that out of disgust. A 6 would've been fair, but guess how I voted?
Summary: Daniel-Day Lewis acts as you would expect him to (and is probably the sole reason for many people liking this flick), all other characters are under-developed, not worth remembering, or illogical. ("Hey, you just killed this guy who I thought was your brother! Want a pipeline on my land? Come to our church and overact like a penitent man and it's a deal!")
And the story itself, well, it doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Each time you get the feeling that something interesting is finally going to happen, nothing happens at all and the movie continues with something totally different.
Oh, and I've heard enough out-of-place screeching violins for a long time to come.