Nothing Like The Book "Oil"

Rating: 7/10 (18 January 2020)

I had seen this movie several years ago, but I wasn't too excited about it because Daniel Day Lewis played such a dark and sinister character. So I had just finished the book "Oil" that this movie was supposed to have had at its base. So I had the movie on my DVR and figured it might more sense after the book. The only connection there was to the book was maybe three or four minutes worth around getting the land and starting the first well. The rest of the movie (Including the beginning) was nothing at all like the book. In the book the oil man and his actual son were a team because he wanted his son to take over the business. Actually the book is based around the son and it is also based around real historic events in the early 1900's. This story was very disappointing. Had they made a story more like the book it would have been far more interesting than this was.