Paul Thomas Anderson’s, “There Will be Blood” was not worth the amount of time it took to get through it. When I sit through a two and a half hour movie, I expect to be entertained. Although the film was mildly entertaining in its own sort of interesting way, I did not walk out of the theater feeling I got my money’s worth.

Right from the very first shot, I could tell this was going to be different simply by the soundtrack. As the black screen fades into the south western desert landscape, a loud siren pierces the ears.

I like different and interesting movies. They’re a nice break from the predictable and tacky crap that Jerry Bruckheimer manages to squeeze out at least three or four times a year. About thirty minutes into the “There Will be Blood,” it became very obvious where the film was going to go.

“There Will be Blood” is a profile on a greedy oil tycoon from the early 1900’s named Daniel Plainview and his slow, life-long descent into madness. The best thing I can say about this movie is that it is mildly interesting.

The film is worth a rental if everything else good at the video store is already checked out, but nothing more. And if you still plan on seeing it in the theaters, good luck finding a place that actually screens it.