Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
Someday, we're probably going to look back at There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic about greed, lies, manipulation and insanity, and call it his masterpiece.
– Christy Lemire,
Associated Press,
18 Jan 2008
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Daniel Day-Lewis bestrides the narrow world like a colossus as Daniel Plainview, a turn-of-the-last-century prospector for gold and silver who stumbles upon oil in rural California and goes after it with the ferocity, focus, and ethical sensitivity of a f
– Jonathan F. Richards,
Film.com,
5 Feb 2008
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There Will Be Blood establishes itself as a film of Darwinian ferocity, a stark and pitiless parable of American capitalism.
– Christopher Orr,
The New Republic,
18 Sep 2008
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One of the most wholly original American movies ever made.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
18 Oct 2008
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This sometimes magnificent, decidedly strange film is a portrait of a terrible, rapacious man.