| Combine the darkness of Citizen Kane and the greed of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and you get some idea of the impact of There Will Be Blood. An impressive – if self important – film that would be half as sinister without its musical score. Daniel Day-Lewis delivers an exhausting performance, competing only with the aforementioned score and cinematography. Two hours and thirty-eight minutes of a morality play that provides little in the way of hope, or escape, from the grip of power or money.
| Take each component of this film individually (acting, cinematography and score) and you get a grade of excellent. Put it together and you get a very long experience in the movie theater. For example, the first 20 minutes or so there is no dialogue but we experience the human struggle of a man (Daniel Day-Lewis) just beginning his career as an oilman. It is moving and intense but once the rest of the film is added, at about the same pace, well you get the idea.
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