When you remove the turn of the century pretext, There Will Be Blood DVD is really nothing more than a battle between two ancient religions - Christianity and Capitalism. That this insistently grim movie remains watchable is due in large measure to Day-Lewis, playing another wild-eyed eccentric shades of Bill the Butcher to mesmerizing effect. More than just the best film of the year, Blood is one of cinemas grandest character studies. Likely to cement the reputation of Paul Thomas Anderson Boogie Nights as the best of the younger American auteur filmmakers. Its as if you can feel the oil flowing under the ground, bubbling, seeking a weak patch of earth from which to spew. But, the climactic emotional equivalent never occurs. Sprawling yet cramped, There Will Be Blood may not be the best movie of the year, but its certainly the strangest. It evokes passing comparisons to everything from Giant to Citizen Kane but its impossible to pigeonhole.