Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

maxinestansord You could watch this movie a hundred times and see something new in it with every viewing. The acting, cinematography and score are all deeply perfect, and the story is so quintisentially American. Many have tried, but few can pull off internal struggle as well as PTA, especially with DDL. When we talk about the grand old stories of good versus evil about rich white men, this is the movie that shows that that genre can be good, if it's really ABOUT something. The rest of you can quit trying. This is my generation's Godfather, and it will be taught in film school for decades to come. Bravo to the masters.

ar-hopp How can this movie have such a high rating? There is no real plot. For 2,5 hours I waited for something to happen, but it never came. Don't watch it!

bamafan-52475 Parts of the movie are so abstract you miss part of the "action" ( I use that term loosely) trying to figure out what just happened. The score is grating to say the least and the storyline is like a patchwork quilt that is coming apart. It was 2 and 1/2 hours of my life I will never get back and I'm sad.

quarterwavevertical I watched TWBB on cable a few days ago. I needn't have bothered.The movie lasts more than two and a half hours but it feels like it's longer. It crawls at such a slow pace that one could stop watching and, say, play a round of golf, come back and continue watching without having missed anything.As well, there are a number of gaps or sudden jumps in the story, which made me wonder just what actually happened between scenes.Daniel Day-Lewis is a talented actor but he seems to wear the same expression throughout the movie. Then again, there's little development of his character. I find it hard to believe that his performance was worthy of an Academy Award.Sadly, none of the other characters are properly developed as well. For example, how and, for that matter, why did the preacher go into the ministry?As social commentary, this movie didn't say anything new and it didn't say it very well.The musical score, such as it is, is dull and uninspiring.Avoid this movie if one doesn't want to be bored. I would put it in the same league as "No Country For Old Men"--dull, lifeless, and over-promoted. Sadly TWBB and NCFOM are symptomatic of the fact that Hollywood no longer knows how to tell stories, let alone make movies.If you want to see a good movie about the oil industry and its development over the years, I can recommend "Giant" with James Dean's character of Jet Rink being the counterpart to Daniel Day-Lewis's.