There Will Be Blood: Blu-ray DVD Review (2008)

Now available on Blu-ray disc, where it looks smashing in high-definition, this terrific film follows Daniel Day-Lewis’ Daniel Plainview, who at the turn of the last century came to the oil-rich town of Little Boston with enough greed and hate to ruin a country, nevermind a town.

He’s there to beat Standard Oil at their own game and buy up as much land as he can.

Meanwhile, he finds in Little Boston an unexpected adversary in Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), a Bible-thumping evangelist who sees in the good book what Plainview sees in oil--absolute power over the people.

Together, these two are pitted against each other in ways that make for stirring, dangerous entertainment, with each actor railing off the other and giving inspired performances in the process.

For Day-Lewis, this of course meant winning the Academy Award.

Rated R. Grade: A

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