There Will Be Blood (2007) movie poster

There Will Be Blood (2007)

"There will be greed. There will be vengeance."
ThumbScore
👍 91%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 92%
Drama

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Runtime
2h 38m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
8.1/10 (7,292 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
93

Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview · 74% avg
Paul Dano as Paul Sunday / Eli Sunday · 71% avg
Kevin J. O'Connor as Henry · 73% avg
Ciarán Hinds as Fletcher Hamilton · 70% avg
Dillon Freasier as H.W. Plainview
Hope Elizabeth Reeves as Elizabeth
Colleen Foy as Mary Sunday
Barry Del Sherman as H. B. Ailman

Is There Will Be Blood good?

Yes. 91% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 92%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#100 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#3 / 198 · 2007
Rank among its director's films

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic period drama written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil! Daniel Day-Lewis delivers one of the most towering performances in cinema history as Daniel Plainview, a relentless, misanthropic silver miner turned oil prospector in early 20th-century California who builds a petroleum empire through a combination of genuine business acumen, manipulative charm, and consuming hatred for virtually all human beings. When Plainview discovers oil beneath a small California community, his exploitation of the land brings him into conflict with Eli Sunday, played by Paul Dano, a charismatic young preacher whose church represents the only power in town that Plainview doesn't control.

Daniel Day-Lewis's performance was a volcanic feat of sustained intensity, creating a character of Shakespearean proportions — Plainview's "I drink your milkshake" monologue and his confession that he has "a competition in me" that wants to see everyone fail became immediately iconic. Paul Thomas Anderson's direction employed Robert Elswit's Oscar-winning widescreen cinematography and Jonny Greenwood's dissonant, Ligeti-influenced score to create an atmosphere of constant, simmering menace. There Will Be Blood won two Academy Awards and earned $76 million worldwide on a $25 million budget.

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