Over-the-top Performance by Lewis Dominates

Rating: 7/10 (30 January 2008)

Visually stunning most of the time, this film contains a history (inaccurate, though the distortion doesn't hurt or help the movie) of California that is consistently overracted by Daniel Day Lewis.
Nevertheless, the story will satisfy most viewers, even if the ending is inadequate and just seems to be devised to finish the film, rather than to grow organically out of the previous actions in the film.
I can't be the only one that found Lewis's performance so artfully intense as to become a kind of caricature and far less than convincing. All his awards and distinctions seem to me to reflect a vast audience that is critically and artistically immature. Sorry to say.