Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Ernest Baldwyn This film was absolutely fantastic in every way. The performances were all amazing especially Daniel Day-Lewis. It's no surprise he did an amazing job but it was shocking seeing how transformed he was into this character, it was truly a joyous time watching a master at work. The score by Jonny Greenwood was elegantly hypnotic, it was as if I was in a trance every time that amazing piano theme started playing, it added so much to the film. It could also get very dark and kind of disturbing at times, all in a delightful way and enjoyable through and through. Although there wasn't anything out of this world with the directing, Paul Thomas Anderson truly made a spectacular film and it's definitely on my top movies of 2017.

mostfilmsaredumb Very hard to be very good at very different things. Directing requires knowledge of many things. Story telling/writing/screenwriting requires knowledge of many things. A few people have managed to have both skill sets. They are the exception. But it seems people who go into film and are into shots and camera lenses and directing actors seem to think that they also have something to say. They almost never do. Compare with theatre. How many playwrights direct their own plays? How many theatre directors write their own plays? Very few. But in Hollywood, it happens quite often. And usually the result is garbage. For explainer videos, the key lesson is that all that really matters is plot. But for the whole pretentious "film" crowd, concern with plot is viewed as somehow indication that one doesn't really grasp a directors "vision" or that one doesn't grasp that "film" should not be judged like a play.It's all BS of course. It's story telling. Films tell stories. Small children can explain this to you if you are in doubt. They last about 2 hours just like plays. But if you don't have anything to say about human beings, you are going to bore people. If you are really good at choosing lenses and handling actors and setting up shots, it's really really unlikely that you also have any real insight into human beings and how write that down.Compare all these silly movies to Chinatown. Why are there so few scripts like Chinatown? Is Robert Towne really that unique? I don't think so. I think that, for the reasons mentioned above, Holllwood is just utterly clueless about plot. Anderson may be a good director. But he's a terrible screen writer who knows nothing about human beings. Yes, their are all kinds of weird people in the world. It does not follow that anything goes for plot. The story is idiotic in the extreme. You will learn nothing about human beings at all. If you love somebody poison them twice. Wow. So deep. Evidently actors are just as clueless about human beings as directors. Why else would the star of this movie choose this as his swan song? Hollywood, I know your middle name.

mavrogiorgosdimitrios I just want to say that is the worst movie I ever saw

alexeiisram There Will Be Blood (TWNB) is one of my favorite movies. Paul Thomas Anderson is a director of above mentioned film and a very talented director. A patient storyteller with unique perspective. Daniel Day-Lewis is a star of TWBB and one of the greatest actors alive. This movie has both of these men, but left me bored, not entertained and disappointed. It's not a story about love - I don't think these people are capable of love. It's not about one man obsession with perfecting his craft. He was born a perfectionist. It's one woman quest (a struggle really) to belong. Where she doesn't. And she knows it. So do everyone else. But her obsession finds a way. And then, the unthinkable happens. Won't tell you what! No spoilers this time. You'll have sit through 2+ hours to experience the "grand finale ". Of course it not all bad. 1* is the minimum here, so we just take it for granted (it's only fair - an effort was made). Another * is for Daniel Day-Lewis being in it. One more for cinematography. And another again for DDL - it's a pleasure to see this man work, never mind the material. 4/10