Completely overated. I think the fundamental problems with this film are firstly, that the parts are better than the whole and secondly, that the plot itself is not worth a penny and it's simply a performance-driven and flawed motion picture.
I was begging for a script writer and a musician to come along and help this movie on which I had very high expectations. As I watched it, it seemed more and more like a cocktail of put-together scenes that didn't really follow one story line.
Daniel Day-Lewis could have played this character with his eyes closed, and he was no less than I expected and of what he's got me used to see from him. He owns the movie, without him, I wouldn't have sat through the unnecessary 140 minutes. And Paul Dano is a very promising young man, and he's been prooving that since Little Miss Sunshine.
The theming, which started from the very beginning in te very first scene, was, I think, very interesting, but very badly developed. It started geniously, with a look at the rooths of greed, and after that we imediatly see Day-Lewis character made into a real oil magnate, who's buying more and more lands to explode. But as the movie came to an end (VERY slowly...) I didn't find an appropiate closing to such a theme.
Synthesizing, this is a very flawed, unnecessarily long, performance-driven put-together scenes about greed, subject that's not appropiately developed.
I was begging for a script writer and a musician to come along and help this movie on which I had very high expectations. As I watched it, it seemed more and more like a cocktail of put-together scenes that didn't really follow one story line.
Daniel Day-Lewis could have played this character with his eyes closed, and he was no less than I expected and of what he's got me used to see from him. He owns the movie, without him, I wouldn't have sat through the unnecessary 140 minutes. And Paul Dano is a very promising young man, and he's been prooving that since Little Miss Sunshine.
The theming, which started from the very beginning in te very first scene, was, I think, very interesting, but very badly developed. It started geniously, with a look at the rooths of greed, and after that we imediatly see Day-Lewis character made into a real oil magnate, who's buying more and more lands to explode. But as the movie came to an end (VERY slowly...) I didn't find an appropiate closing to such a theme.
Synthesizing, this is a very flawed, unnecessarily long, performance-driven put-together scenes about greed, subject that's not appropiately developed.
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