One Paragraph Review: There Will Be Blood

I found this movie so difficult to review that it has taken two weeks for my opinions and thoughts to coalesce such that I might jam the big points into just one paragraph. This movie is a magnificently directed exposition on how to master blending the artistically gorgeous with the technically perfect. Every scene is immaculately executed, every bit of the eccentric musical score from Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood matches the films visual brilliance, and absolutely everything that Daniel Day-Lewis does in this film is another piece of evidence in the case for this performance to be one of the definitive acting performances in the last decade. Yet amidst all that artistic exquisiteness, be warned this film may still confuse it's audience and leave them without any sense of closure or purpose (which may or may not deliver an even stronger impact).