The sort of movie Hollywood should be making in 2019...

Rating: 8/10 (7 April 2019)

If you're tired of watching and/or hearing about "Hulk versus Spiderman: World Calamity Clash 567: Expanded Universe Edition", this is exactly the kind of movie you should pick up.
There Will Be Blood feels right at home fitting into the niche of "sophisticated, old-skool film." This is not a picture that will hold your hand and guide you through every scene about what you should think, what you should feel, yadda yadda.
Instead we have a complicated main character who eventually journeys into becoming the antagonist of the movie. Opposite him, we have a complicated deuteragonist who...also becomes an antagonist!
If I were to try and simply state what There Will Be Blood is about, it would be the corruption of hyper-capitalism versus the corruption of organized religion. The film draws many, many parallels between the characters of Eli Sunday and Daniel Plainview and the result is a movie that is compelling to watch and analyse in depth.
In short, if you want to see a movie that is stylistic yet realistic, bleak yet interesting, and with a functioning brain behind the scenes rather than CGI nonsense, this is one to watch.