Wow. It's not often these days that I see a movie and think "Twenty years from now, thirty years, people will still be watching this movie and learning things from it."
Daniel Day-Lewis is simply fabulous. Not just because he gives a great performance, which he does, but because his portrayal is awe-inspiring, mesmerizing and mortifying.
The movie has a slow, deliberate pace, but it doesn't dawdle. The pacing gives weight to an already powerful script, giving the story and performances time and space to develop.
Of course, no one in the movie really stands up to Daniel Day-Lewis, and I don't think anyone really could. But Paul Dano is downright creepy as a evangelical kid preacher, and he proves a quiet foil for Lewis' more theatrical performance.
Beautifully shot and directed, everything about this movie is epic. Old-school Hollywood epic.
Exhausting, powerful and compelling.
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