To say that Glide magazine's Martin Malloy wonders rhetorically how a collaboration on There Will Be Blood among three "masters of their domain"—Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Jonny Greenwood—could possibly disappoint. "Well it can't!" he answers. "And it didn't." For the reviewer, "the most gratifying experience of the whole film was Jonny Greenwood's emergence as an incredible film composer ... Greenwood’s score gets under your skin and doesn’t leave for over two hours, yet it’s somehow still beautiful and enthralling."
To say that Glide magazine's Martin Malloy was excited by the prospect of Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Jonny Greenwood, three of his favorite creative talents, coming together to create There Will Be Blood is a bit of an understatement. He wonders rhetorically how a collaboration among these three "masters of their domain" could possibly disappoint. "Well it can't!" he answers. "And it didn't."
Malloy does not spare praise for Anderson and Day-Lewis and places the film among the best of the past 20 years ("nothing short of a masterpiece"). But for the reviewer, "the most gratifying experience of the whole film was Jonny Greenwood's emergence as an incredible film composer." He writes:
the music's impact is just as important to the story as is Day-Lewis' quintessential American acting (mind you, he’s British and lives in Ireland) ... Greenwood’s score gets under your skin and doesn’t leave for over two hours, yet it’s somehow still beautiful and enthralling.
To read the review, visit glidemagazine.com.
