The second Underworld prequel no one asked for that features surprisingly consistent storytelling

Rating: 5/10 (17 September 2019)

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them. It's a bit more complicated than really, but who cares.
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is a shoehorny piece of revisionist history that works well as a mildly spicy historical epic and also a very 2000's underworld esque horror action piece. The performances are ok, if a little over dramatic at times and the film looks and feels authentic at being a historical epic through detailed art direction and the cinematography's warm colour palette.
The CGI is ok, if overused and reaching the point of absurdity on several occasions. I know that this was par the course for fantasy action films about not so fourscore and seven years ago, but it's still dumb, even now and i stand by my point.
The best this film becomes is in its attempts to fuse historical fact with vampire lore. All of that about the American slave trade being entirely run by a network of vampires i found intriguing as a broad metaphor. I wish the film had more of that instead of Znyderesque over-dramatisation and again, i spout, d-u-m-b.
In all, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter can work for you as either a po faced black comedy or a time capsule for the era of high concept blockbusters now so long behind us.