Sensing I’m the only person left in the UK who had not until this week seen There Will Be Blood, I may be preaching to the converted but if, like me, you too have resisted this hyped-up gem of a film, go and see it while you still have a chance.
Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis) a self-professed, self-made oil man drags his son and heir HW around every craggy crack and pit in California on the look out for black gold, a quick buck and an unsuspecting community to rip off. An unscrupulous reptile, Plainview oozes charisma promising the God-fearing people of Little Boston corn, schooling and a new church, all the while planning on pumping their oil to the sea. However this time he may have met his match in the fanatical, sometimes possessed preacher Eli and a long lost brother keen to jump on the bandwagon.
Day Lewis captivates right from the start, sucking in viewers and villagers alike with his combination of fatherly tenderness, rhetoric and sheer gall. Unlike many other Academy Award darlings There Will Be Blood lives up to the hype. Brilliant.
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