Don't hate on greatness

Rating: 9/10 (27 May 2009)

After watching this P.T Anderson flick I was outraged at the amount of negative comments the movie has generated here on IMDb, some call it pointless, which I can barely understand, as the ending is clearly not something for everybody's delight, specially those who need that total sense of closure.
But it gets downright ridiculous when some posters argue that the whole "lost brother" plot could have been lost without losing anything, when it is in fact one of the main windows into Plainview's psyche, I even read this one guy saying Eli was the only entertaining character, Eli is an over the top character so I assume his meaning for entertaining is "loud".
I encourage my fellow reviewers to watch the film with you're own eye, not through Roger Ebert's as some of you are doing, when you let yourself be caught you'll discover a powerful and brutal film, with very clever and visionary directing, good writing, with some flaws but a lot of classic quotes, and a haunting score. But it's all in the performances, Day-Lewis and Dano show an unbelievable passion in their lead roles and Dillon Freasier gives a wonderful little gemstone of a performance as H.W.
Trust me, There will be Blood is, to whomever it may hurt, one of the quarter stones of this decade's cinema, I ask you not to take the easy road and take the "Boring and overrated" bandwagon but to try to understand the true essence of this mind blowing psychological portrait