Daniel Day-Lewis is the only reason to see this

Rating: 5/10 (3 February 2008)

There Will Be Blood is excessively long, with absolutely no point, nothing but a good score by Arvo Part, and this really terrific acting job by Daniel Day-Lewis (who, by the way, is not the son of C.S. Lewis but rather of a British poet laureate). I cannot emphasize enough how disappointing this film was for me. I never read reviews until after I have seen the movie so I have no idea what the New Yorker has to say, but it was nasty, brutish, and about an hour too long. Lots of internalized rage, so if you already get that with your patients, you may want to give this a miss. I really do not see what there is to laud other than D D-L's great acting.
I would have gladly spent the $10 to see either of the other two again (Juno or No Country for Old Men). Can't understand why the AFI has the hugely boring movie in the large theatre. Or why the public is attending (sheeple -- they go where they are told to go, I guess) since aside from a few laughs everyone seemed fidgety and yawning. I've never seen so many people leave during a film. (Yeah, most came back after a pee or a smoke or whatever they did, but if it's a good film people don't leave.) Just my opinion.