Really Good, but seems incomplete

Rating: 8/10 (6 August 2008)

This is a very good movie, directed by a semi-well-known director (which is a nice change). The acting is terrific, and even the lower characters hold their ends up well. Daniel Day-lewis portrays a blood-thirsty (Capitalist!) oil-man perfectly. Some complaints about this movie were that it was dark, and grotesque. I could show this movie to a ten year old, and they would not be terrified. However I doubt they would appreciate it. The most grotesque thing was his character, which I doubt would effect a child. The movie has a slow pace, but it only adds to the movie, setting the stage of a quiet town being over-run by a maniac. The movie is really good for about 98% of it, but the end scene seems really random, and strange. I know what most people will say about it, that he killed him because he was competition, but if that was the only reason, next to Eli's humiliation of Daniel, it seems a poor ending at best. Watch It: WITH AN OPEN MIND!