There Will Be Blood (2 disc Special Edition) [2007]

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Director : Paul Thomas Anderson
Actor : Daniel Day-Lewis, Ciarán Hinds, Kevin J. O'Connor, Barry Del Sherman, Dillon Freasier
Format : PAL
Binding : DVD
EAN : 8717418164577
Product Group : DVD
Region Code : 2
Release Date : 2008-07-07
Running Time : 152minutes
Studio : Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm

ASIN : B0012L6AC8

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review

If there's a screen performance in 2008 that comes anywhere near to matching Daniel Day-Lewis' Oscar-winning turn in There Will Be Blood, then we've come nowhere near to seeing it. A tour-de-force of acting and a career high for Day-Lewis, it's the highlight of an extraordinary, really quite daring piece of cinema.

That said, we've come to expect nothing less from writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson, the man who previously brought us Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch Drunk Love. However, he's really topped himself in terms of ambition with There Will Be Blood, an adaptation of Upton Sinclair's book, Oil! It follows Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) who, when we first meet him in the film's silent opening is attempting to mine silver, before he discovers oil and slowly builds up an empire off the back of it. There Will Be Blood then follows his rise to power, given the vast riches that his oil brings him, concurrently exploring his relationship with his son. It proves to be a long, complex, stunning piece of work.

There's little room in There Will Be Blood for much more than the sheer power of Day-Lewis' performance, but credit Paul Dano (last seen saying an awful lot less in Little Miss Sunshine) for attempting to go toe-to-toe with the leading man. He's a foil of sorts for Plainview, playing a man as troubled and torn as Day-Lewis' character, and it's a career high to date for the young actor. The film, too, is a match for anything Paul Thomas Anderson has done to date, and that's some achievement.

With no easy resolution, and a degree of complexity in its characters that we all-too-rarely see from modern American films, There Will Be Blood is a challenging, at times breathtaking piece of cinema. It won't be to all tastes, and it adamantly refuses to give easy answers, but it's as daring as anything you'll see on screen all year. And Day-Lewis' performance ranks next to any of the all-time greats that you'd care to mention. --Simon Brew

Customer Reviews

Packing is a disaster (2008-08-19)

Top movie, but the "environmentally-friendly cardboard made from recycled paper" packing is a complete disaster!

there will be blood (2008-08-15)

There Will Be Blood (Single Disc Edition) [2007]over long.over acted, self indulgent twaddle, all style and no content.

Fine drama, confused in places (2008-08-10)

This is an intense study of a single minded oil man and his struggles and tests in reaching the top. It also shows the various delusions, brutalities and neglects he is a party to in his rise in his field. Without some first rate acting, this film would not hold together. It has too many uneven elements and parts of the story do not fit as naturally as might be liked. That it remains a stunning piece of cinema is a tribute to everyone involved, but I strongly recommend people to watch and decide for themselves. At the very least, you will see some stunning acting and fine, affecting drama.

Nearly a winner (2008-08-10)

Daniel Day-Lewis plays a deeply flawed oil man at the turn of the 19th century America. He deserved his Oscar for Best Actor with a truly mesmerising performance.The story itself is interesting enough, albeit a tad slow. The choice of musical score was inspired as it added tension to some scenes that would otherwise have been mundane.My disappointment was the ending, which left me feeling short-changed. I thought I was watching a masterpiece only to find towards the end that I no longer cared about any of the characters.

He shoots....HE SCORES! (2008-08-04)

There are two things that make this film seriously special and although Daniel Day-Lewis is definitely one of them, he isn't the one that pushes this into the realms of the classics. The man who is responsible for that is Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood, because without his soundtrack this would have been a TOTALLY different film, indeed at times his music doesn't seem to have been scored for this film at all, which doesn't sound at face value like a good idea...but MY GOD. Greenwood takes TV-series Lost's building-orchestral-tune-up and turns it into a 150 minute symphony...it adds a sense of foreboding to even the most simple scene.There are plenty of other reviews here that deal with the (brilliant) performances and (actually pretty derivative) story but the real news here is that we have a new composer who stands, on this evidence, on the same plain as Ennio Morricone. Blimey.

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