Film review: There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood @ IMDB

A film about the American obsession with oil, eh? How politically relevant. But let's forget the politics and look at the film.

What we have is the story of a silver miner who becomes an Oil Man, a man who controls oil fields across America and what he does along the way.

Good Lord. There are Movies and there are Films and then there is Cinema. This is Cinema, capital C. It looks astounding. There are scenes from this film that will be played forever.

Daniel Day-Lewis is, surprise surprise, astounding. He's a force of nature at the centre of the film. The real surprise is that everyone else is just as good. Day-Lewis' nemesis in the film, a young Preacher, goes to to toe with him and it makes for some riveting scenes.

It really is hard to put into words how great this film is but also how different it is. It feels like it has no structure, at least not the usual three act structure. It just is. Things happen. People say things.

There's nothing like it.

The only thing that disappointed me was the lack of a gratuitous Luiz Guzman cameo.

In a word? Astounding.