A bit too ambitious, but it works.

Rating: 7/10 (8 January 2013)

As a young boy Lincoln witnesses how his mother is attacked by a vampire. Since then he dreams of nothing but killing that vampire. As a young man, he is taken under the wing and trained by a vampire hunter, who gives him assignments to kill all these vampires- except the one Lincoln wants to kill. Also in the area is the main vampire. In the meantime Lincoln studies law, becomes involved in politics, wins the presidency, and the civil war begins. The main vampire is a big fan of slavery because it gives him plenty of bodies. So the civil war will turn out to be the north against the vampires in the south. The main vampire also manages to attack Lincoln's son. As these vampires can only be killed with a silver bullet, Lincoln has to to gather all the silver he can get to provide the army with enough bullets to destroy all the vampires, but he first has to transport all that silver to the battlefront.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is surprisingly an entertaining action flick. I wasn't expecting much but ended up enjoying it. You can't expect much in terms of character development but Lincoln's vampire friend is somewhat of an interesting character. The fight sequences are pretty well filmed. The larger and more complex CGI scenes don't convince, they look pretty cheesy but I didn't mind. The final fight on top of a moving train, at night, surrounded by fire is too cliché. This movie tries to cover a lot in terms of the life of Lincold a bit too much perhaps, but it is nevertheless an entertaining movie that is rather mild for it's R-rating.