I thought the plot was a bit sluggish but overall the acting reigned supreme. Also, I wanted to extrapolate a stronger religous correlation with the plot but couldn't find one. We must remember that reality is the womb to which entertainment is born.

James, White Lk. Michigan,

If you were to ask me, the character Daniel Plainview was just the same character as Lewis portrayed in "Gangs of New York", just more fleshed out. Solid acting here, but not too sure it's an Oscar nod.

scott, New York, NY

The film's main flaw is that it drags too much throughout the main course - with some tauter editing, they really could have amped up the emotional intensity of the antagonism between Lewis's character and the Preacher.

I will say, though, that ending was . . . incredible. Probably the most powerful movie ending I've ever seen, almost horrifying in its intensity.

Brett, Salt Lake City, USA

Daniel Day-Lewis tried his level best with a script that did not serve him well. The momentum sagged far too often and at times the film's audience appeared to be treated as dim wits so painfully slowly did each nuance stretch and stretch into the distance. A waste of a fine actor's talents. We came out well before the end.

JL Le Maitre, St. Andrews, Fife

Day-Lews didn't deserve an Oscar for his scenary-chewing antics. He had to dominate every shot, shouting down and disrupting the performance of his fellow actors. I haven't seen such a hammy performance since de Niro in Cape Fear.

TJA, London, UK

This movie is 100% genuine, astonishing, and Daniel Day-Lewis absolutely brilliant. Its true is trenchant. Besides Daniel Day-Lewis’ acting, I loved the atmosphere of this movie. It is just different. I would like to see it again.

Pusha, Montreal,

Whatever your opinion of this film, it contains one of the most extraordinary screen performances of our time. Day-Lewis takes us back to the days of Olivier. A towering performance which will leave you stunned.

Ken Edwards, sheffield, uk

A masterpiece. Both Plainview and the preacher share the same obsessed personality as Melville's Ahab. The photography, acting, score, editing and direction are masterly. And the final scenes are a weird and wonderful marriage of Welles and Kubrick. I loved the film's tantalising references to Getty, Charles Kane and Howard Hughes

GFW, Christchurch, New Zealand

Possibly the worst film I have ever seen. I would have left if I had been able to.

L, London,

It's an outstanding film.

The artwork is extraordinary- the oil rig is a symbol in itself for so many things, and so too is the land. There are genuine themes in the film, including the role of religion, family, politics, betrayal.

Unlike No Country For Old Men, there is no ambiguity in its genre. This film clearly signals it is a tragedy, and then a horror. And, my Goodness, the film is a series of the most apalling catastrophes, dashed hopes, and emotional turmoils that I have ever seen.

The score is so extraordinary in the way it narrates the film, you find yourself genuinely frightened and gripped. At no point can the audience tell where the plot is going, so there is a lot of suspense and tension. I was truly gripped from start to finish.

I went in the afternoon, when I was sober. Go there when there are a few seats spare in the theatre and there aren't any distracting people next to you. It really is an important film.

E Moffat, Sevenoaks,

Granted, it's not an uplifting, happy ending experience, but Day-Lewis is riveting in this film. If he doesn't win an Oscar, they should stop giving them out.

Marv, Long Beach, CA

Black, black, black and depressing - shows the worst sides of human nature. Daniel Day-Lewis was fantastic but there was nothing 'moving about this old-school anti-hero'. He had no redeeming qualities at all in my opinion.

Tania, Sydney, Australia

California not Texas.

Irv, Wilmette, Illinois