When I'm watching a film that moves very slowly and is dragging out, I sometimes play this game in which I pretend I'm the editor and reselect the point by thinking "cut" where I would shorten the clip to help improve the movie's pacing.
Such is not the case with There Will Be Blood. With a running time of almost two hours and forty minutes, the period film is so captivating and well directed and edited that it doesn't seem to be that long.
Despite the title, There Will Be Blood is not really a violent movie, except for one scene, and interestingly, there's no dialogue in the first fourteen minutes of the movie. There Will Be Blood is based on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!, and with exceptional production design, costumes, and an eerie film score, There Will Be Blood is one of the most memorable period films ever made since The Godfather and The Godfather: Part 2, although a movie about the oil industry is not as thrilling as one about the Mafia.
Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia), There Will Be Blood stars Daniel Day-Lewis as an oil tycoon in the 1900s in California. Released in 2007, There Will Be Blood is a refreshingly realistic take on a historical fiction film and is cinema at its finest.
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