A very strange movie...

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2012)

"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" the novel was a best seller. "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" the movie didn't do especially well at the box office. I haven't read the book, but I suspect many people didn't warm to the movie adaptation was that a lot of times what works on the written page doesn't work on the big screen. As it is, a lot of the movie had me scratching my head. Was I supposed to laugh? Was I supposed to treat it as a horror movie? Or was I supposed to take the entire thing seriously? I honestly didn't know how to react to what I saw. The movie also suffers from uneven special effects - some look good, but others look way too computer generated instead of realistic. I can't honestly say I was bored by this movie, but more often than not it left me bewildered. If I had hadn't gotten the Blu-ray as a free rental, I suspect my opinion would have been more negative. So I suggest you wait until it plays on cable on a slow night.