There Will Be Blood is an absolute amazing and intense film with a great performance from Daniel Day-Lewis as anti-hero Daniel Plainview. This is a gripping story with family, religion, greed, and milkshakes.Many people say that Daniel Day-Lewis gives the only good performance in the film, but Paul Dani also gives a great performance as Eli Sunday.The movie is about an oil prospector named Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis). He dosen't care about ANYONE except himself. When one of his workers die he adopts his son H.W, and uses him as a prop to make him feel like he's a nice family man, when he's actually a ruthless monster. And that's all I'll say about it, because I don't want to spoil it, because if you haven't seen this movie, see it.Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for best actor, and he deserved it because his performance is so convincing and amazing, that it's scary. He's the only actor ever to win 3 oscars.This film seems heavily influenced by Stanley Kubrick, due to the music at the end, the atmosphere, the hidden and mysterious messages that go over your head, and Plainview beats Eli Sunday the exact same way the apes beat up the skeleton with the bone in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I think the reason why is because the director Paul Thomas Anderson actually met Stanley Kubrick. And he was nice Paul Thomas Anderson when he found out he directed Boogie Nights, but he was much nicer to him when he learned he wrote it.This is a masterpiece and really wonder what Paul Thomas Anderson does next.

I loved 99% of this film. Such exquisite cinematography and amazing performance from all. However can someone explaine why Eli did not age in this film...?

There is no doubt Daniel Day-Lewis totally immersed himself in his character, and Paul Dano was a close second. I wasn't expecting Mary Poppins type levity, but I was disappointed in the two brutal, senseless murders, and surprised and saddened by the vitrolic outbursts unleashed upon unsuspecting, supposed loved ones by both characters. Words are very real things-they bless or they curse, and there are a hundred more effective ways to motivate people, than by deriding them with derogatory namesakes. Still, I had to see how this movie ended-and now I can't seem to get it out of my head.....

Parts of the movie are so abstract you miss part of the "action" ( I use that term loosely) trying to figure out what just happened. The score is grating to say the least and the storyline is like a patchwork quilt that is coming apart. It was 2 and 1/2 hours of my life I will never get back and I'm sad.