20/02/08
There Will Be Blood, and a lot of oil -
Categories: There Will Be Blood was one of the taglines of Saw IV. And I've got to say, There Will Be Blood, the just-released filum with Daniel Day Lewis, isn't doesn't fit in the Saw franchise one bit. There are no bizarre death-based mutilating contraptions, unless you count an oil derrick. And how can anything called Derrick be that frightening?
I rated There Will Be Blood 8/10 on the IMDB (incidentally, my Facebook profile page now imports my IMDB movie ratings, so you can now judge my cinematic taste - I still defend that National Treasure is a good film...). Of that 8/10, that's 10/10 for Daniel Day Lewis, and 6/10 for the film as a whole. It's nominated for Best Film at the Oscars, and so it should - it kept me captivated, but I did come out wondering if there were a film of Daniel Day Lewis reading the phone-book, would it be mesmerising? I suspect it would.
He's an amazing actor, and I found myself watching There Will Be Blood (every time I say that I sing that Maroon 5 song in my head) focusing on him every time he was on screen. Even if a new character appears, and all we can see is the back of DDL's head, the audience are looking at him to see what intense acting nugget he'll pull out of the bag for us now...
I'm probably doing the story of the film a disservice, but it is a tad long, and one-note, but without June-6th-1944-Lewis (a pat on the back if you get that), it'd be nothing. He scares me more than any other actor. And yet if I were to see him in the street, I'd still be tempted to do my best Inspector Morse impression and yell, "Lewiiiss!"
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