There Will Be Blood (2 disc Special Edition) [2007] | ![There Will Be Blood (2 disc Special Edition) [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41cOHPXkDBL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors: Daniel Day-lewis, Ciaran Hinds, Kevin J. O'connor, Barry Del Sherman, Dillon Freasier
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Category: DVD
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Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 383
Format: Pal
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 152 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.5
EAN: 8717418164577
ASIN: B0012L6AC8
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: July 7, 2008
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Amazon.co.uk Review
If there's a screen performance in 2008 that comes anywhere near to matching Daniel Day-Lewis' Oscar-winning turn in There Will Be Blood, then we've come nowhere near to seeing it. A tour-de-force of acting and a career high for Day-Lewis, it's the highlight of an extraordinary, really quite daring piece of cinema. That said, we've come to expect nothing less from writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson, the man who previously brought us Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch Drunk Love. However, he's really topped himself in terms of ambition with There Will Be Blood, an adaptation of Upton Sinclair's book, Oil! It follows Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) who, when we first meet him in the film's silent opening is attempting to mine silver, before he discovers oil and slowly builds up an empire off the back of it. There Will Be Blood then follows his rise to power, given the vast riches that his oil brings him, concurrently exploring his relationship with his son. It proves to be a long, complex, stunning piece of work. There's little room in There Will Be Blood for much more than the sheer power of Day-Lewis' performance, but credit Paul Dano (last seen saying an awful lot less in Little Miss Sunshine) for attempting to go toe-to-toe with the leading man. He's a foil of sorts for Plainview, playing a man as troubled and torn as Day-Lewis' character, and it's a career high to date for the young actor. The film, too, is a match for anything Paul Thomas Anderson has done to date, and that's some achievement. With no easy resolution, and a degree of complexity in its characters that we all-too-rarely see from modern American films, There Will Be Blood is a challenging, at times breathtaking piece of cinema. It won't be to all tastes, and it adamantly refuses to give easy answers, but it's as daring as anything you'll see on screen all year. And Day-Lewis' performance ranks next to any of the all-time greats that you'd care to mention. --Simon Brew
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 Almost a great film September 24, 2008
Niz
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The potential for this film to be a classic was ruined in the last 30 minutes. The storey looses direction and concentrates to much on Daniels madness (for which you never actually get to understand the reason). I think Daniel Day Lewis tried to hard to make this an 'epic' acting performance.
 Overrated, but good performances September 11, 2008
V. Bruford (United Kingdom)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This film suffers from the fact that it progresses at snail's pace, and not a lot happens. Daniel Day-lewis is the highlight of the film dominating every scene he is in but it feels like he is treading the same ground as that of his role in 'Gangs of New York' as Bill The Butcher.
There will be Blood would've have been a cracking film if the flow of the plot had been faster and more dynamic. On a high note the dialogue between Plainview and Sunday at the climax was very good with excellent performances from both actors.
 Very, very good, but not quite great. September 1, 2008
Johnnybluetime
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although I enjoyed this film I'd have to say that an awful lot is sacrificed to DDL's acting.The fact that what everyone talks about is his performance says it all really.He is fantastic, but that's largely due to the fact that nobody else seems to get a word in edgeways.Paul Dano does his best, but like every other character he pops in and out of the film without any great rhyme or reason.There are a few faults,like other reviewers, I was confused for a long time by Dano playing identical twin brothers and there are other elements of the film that are confusing.Dano's congregation grows without the town ever seeming to, and the religous elements are only introduced in short, sharp bursts. But none of this really matters because the film is really about DDL's portrayal of a monster so driven that he even sacrifices his son to his ambition. He ends the film evil and alone and,as he says himself, finished.A fitting ending, but nevertheless very abrupt, and like other sections of the film, with the feeling that something had been heavily cut.
I felt that DDL's performance, particularly the voice, was heavily modelled on John Huston, especially Huston's performance of the evil father in Chinatown. Perhaps because of that I began to note similarities between Dano's character and that of Brad Dourif's in Huston's film Wiseblood, about a deranged young man who creates his own church.
The set pieces are fantastic, as is the cinematography and the soundtrack, which is pitch perfect and almost a character in its own right.However, far too much is only sketched in; characters, plot, motivation, location, for this to be a truly great film. Nevertheless it still stands a head and shoulders above most other films released in the last year and Anderson, like the Coen Bros.,has again shown himself to be a film maker with a great deal of style and ability and with something worth saying
 Some get it, some don't August 31, 2008
Garth Lj Dixon (London)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed reading the one star reviews of this film-they are entitled to their (strangely) similar opinions of course. Make up your own mind I say. I thought it was brilliant, and the music even greater.
there you go
Fabulous, epic... but what's it all about? August 27, 2008
Robert Machin (Hampshire, UK)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
What a very strange and remarkable film this is. Visually, it's brilliant, mesmerising, full of staggering set pieces and resonant images (the old photographs which acted as inspiration are in the extras and well worth checking out). Daniel Day Lewis' performance is towering; he completely occupies the role and utterly dominates the film just as he utterly dominates everything around him. That's the part, as scripted, of course, but there's more to his performance than that - his charismatic presence in the film is remarkable, particularly as it's achieved with almost no shouting, arm-waving or showboating of any kind, and it's hard to imagine any other actor creating it... contrast and compare, for example, Leonardo diCaprio's boyish efforts at Howard Hughes in 'The Aviator'. I'd suggest that this is the film that finally sets Day-Lewis among the all-time screen greats.
Setting aside the bravura performances and direction, however, it's less clear what the film is actually about. Plainview's character is so unique, so individual, that it's hard to draw any broad conclusions. Over-vaunting ambition against family and personal relationships? The ongoing struggle with evangelical religion - God vs Mammon? It's all powerfully realised, but exactly what it is is more problematic. Puzzling too that this epic story ends less on a bang than on a weirdly inconclusive whimper.
Maybe I need to watch it again. I certainly will.
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