Best Actor, yes. Best Picture, never.

Rating: 7/10 (26 January 2008)

A gripping, utterly ruthless performance by Day-Lewis that definitely deserves acclaim, but a script with no narrative arc, no resolution of anything, just a dead-end stop in nihilistic gore. Is that it? the single-minded pursuit of profit destroys sanity and morality? that's all we get?
I can hardly believe that I've seen this film compared to "Citizen Kane". There's no sense of epic futility and loss here, not even the soul-aching bewilderment of Sheriff Bell's last lines in the also-open-ended "No Country for Old Men". It just...ends. All we can do is hope the butler knows who to call next.
Not even CLOSE to Best Picture of the year.