The Revelation

Rating: 10/10 (16 March 2012)

There Will be Blood is quite an achievement.
It is intellectually charged however, and it's normal that people who have no interest in psychology and philosophy will fail to appreciate it.
The climatic ending between Paul Dano and Daniel Day-Lewis is unparalleled in dramatic intensity ("I'm the third revelation!").
It brings forth the deepest existential questions that have taken hold of man-kind and their ultimate resolution, in blood:
"I am finished."
It is mature, serious, perfectly mastered and powerfully acted drama. It is accompanied by a contemporary music orchestral score which imitates the 1960s style of Ligeti, Xenakis and Penderecki pretty well.
Generally well composed, tonal music also comes at the appropriate moment in the movie.
Just do not expect another action western movie, this is way above the rest.