Ambitious prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis, in an Oscar-winning role) strikes it rich when he buys the oil rights to a California family's ranch, turns a simple village into a boomtown and stokes the ire of a charismatic young preacher (Paul Dano). Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds and Russell Harvard co-star in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-nominated adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! (per netflix.com)
Grade: D+
ugggg,..... Ok,... Here we go,.... The hype on this movie was HUGE, so my expectations of it were just as much so, and unfortunately I was let down. In a way, I wish I hadn't heard all of the hype, and I would have gone into this movie not expecting anything at all, and probably would have had a better response,.... maybe,.... It was just VERY slow moving, a WHOLE lot of time, for not a lot of story. Sure, the acting was all just fine, but there wasn't really anything that drew me in, or a character that I liked and cared about what happened to them. It just wasn't that spectacular in my opinion.
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