There Will Be Blood (2007)

There Will Be Blood rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.2/10· 701K votes

Rotten Tomatoes91%

Metacritic93%

TMDb8.077/10· 7K votes

With 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.2/10 on IMDb and 93/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About There Will Be Blood

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.

Cast of There Will Be Blood

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  Daniel Day-Lewis

  as Daniel Plainview

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  Paul Dano

  as Paul Sunday / Eli Sunday

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  Kevin J. O'Connor

  as Henry

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  Ciarán Hinds

  as Fletcher Hamilton

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  Dillon Freasier

  as H.W. Plainview

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  Hope Elizabeth Reeves

  as Elizabeth

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  Colleen Foy

  as Mary Sunday

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  Barry Del Sherman

  as H. B. Ailman

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  David Willis

  as Abel Sunday

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  Hans Howes

  as Mr. Bandy

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  Sydney McCallister

  as Mary Sunday (young)

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  Paul F. Tompkins

  as Prescott

There Will Be Blood facts

Budget

$25M

Box office

$77.2M

Our take on There Will Be Blood

Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 epic charts ruthless oilman Daniel Plainview's rise across the American frontier, a study of greed, faith and corrosive ambition powered by a towering central performance. Severe, beautiful and slow-burning toward an unforgettable end, it's modern cinema at its most monumental. If its moral darkness and grandeur gripped you, seek out ambitious character dramas about power, capitalism and the rot it breeds.