2.5 Hours of wasted time

Rating: 1/10 (6 March 2008)

I thought based on the genre and overall rating of this movie that it might be worth watching. In the end I find that I have wasted 2.5 hours of my life that I will never get back.
The "award winning" musical score consists of a horrible screeching noise that I would compare to fingers on a chalk board. The movie does contain some very good acting, but this cannot overcome the fact that there is no plot. At one hour into the movie I was asking myself what big event, what life changing statement was going to come out of this movie to justify my time spent watching it. Unfortunately, at the end I was still asking myself the same question.
Perhaps the movie was trying to point out that the main character was a jerk and that he could have wealth but not a good life. Big deal, I can see that every day, I don't need a movie to tell me. Perhaps the movie was trying to document the techniques used for turn of the century oil drilling. A documentary would have been much more informative.