There Will Be Blood

Rarely have I witnessed such a fantastic foil to a towering performance. Day-Lewis' acting serves as such an apocalyptic inferno of quietly seething ambition and animosity that it almost overwhelms everything else in the film. This is both the weakness and strength of the film. Push that intensity too far in either direction, and the film would fall flat. It's already not a pleasant film. That it's so riveting is a triumph in spite of that, and that's as considerable a compliment as I could give Day-Lewis and the almost equally compelling Paul Dano. I do not enjoy this film. I also cannot stop watching it once it's on.