Review – There Will Be Blood

There will be boredom. This Terrence-Malick-esque production is based on an Upton Sinclair novel about an oil driller corrupted by greed. The protagonist – played with usual hammy aplomb by Daniel Day-Lewis – has little or no character development. He starts out as a selfish jerk and remains so throughout the picture. The only real function to the two-plus-hours of screen time is to find new ways for the man’s greed to make him miserable. In the almost complete absence of a story arc, the parade of misfortune swiftly becomes intolerably tedious. See if desperate