A thoroughly entertaining and inventive movie.

Rating: 8/10 (24 June 2012)

Everyone just needs to calm down and respect this movie for what it is. Frankly, I don't understand what people were expecting from a movie called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. You'd think it's an entertaining guilty pleasure sorta movie. But even my fairly high expectations were surpassed. What I thought would be a fun popcorn flick was actually a high octane, original and overall epic movie. The movie has great atmosphere and an especially awesome dismal colour scheme. The cast is quite impressive, like Benjamin Walker's Lincoln, while, of course we'll never really know how well he portrayed Lincoln, he seemed interested and dedicated to this roll. The vampire designs were awesome. I loved how their jaws grew to such large size and contorted to a whole different shape, reminiscent of Venom. It's good to see something different than just pale guys with fangs and red eyes. I thought the actions sequences were also well put together and quite inventive. For example, there's a chase between Lincoln and a vampire atop a herd of stampeding wild horses. I never thought I would see that. I've only heard complaints about this movie. A big one is that Abraham doesn't even kill vampires for half the movie, when he becomes president. That's quite the exaggeration. Try the last third of the movie he's president, plus he's supposed to be in his fifties. Were you really expecting him to be slaying vampires at an age when he could retire. And if that's not enough, he does kill vampires, in the film's finale. He has a higher body count than any other action sequence in the film, too. People should just calm down. No, it doesn't have the greatest story line or Oscar winning dialogue, but it did what it came to do: entertain. Stop oogling at the third batman movie, and watch an original movie for once, instead of simply shunning it away. Stick to your franchises for all I care, because I'm satisfied with this. Final rating: 8.5/10