The Author of the book wrote the script - he most not have liked the book he wrote

Rating: 5/10 (16 December 2012)

Hum this film is OK. Its well i don't really know i sm a bit mixed here. This film had good moments and then bad moments but as you can see the bad moments were a bit more strong then the good moments sadly. The bad moments include the running time,script,faithfulness,confusing,and much more. The running time is just short , the film needed more time for Abe's life to better unfold, we learn nothing of his suffering actually, in the book he suffers horribly in the movie his son's death is the only sad part. This film needed a longer running time or cutting down some of the stupid footage like Mary Todd shooting the vampire girl, they could have made a part 2 and had her in it and more suffering for Abe and it would have been better. That helps me to move in to my next subject with the faithfulness to the great book. This film just like The City Of Ember , is not faithful, it uses maybe acouple characters and the main idea which is Abraham Lincoln Vampire Killer and thats about it. Most characters are new, if they are not then the characters took out of the book have been given the same name just different stories which is just not good not good at all. I was sad with it, it jumped about 50 pages each scene making it very confusing and might i say stupid which i just don't understand being the fact that the person who wrote the book wrote the script for this movie which inda gets me wondering why would he get rid of all those characters and add new ones skipping through the book so fast it is speedy, i think he thought he was writing a sort of revised Abraham, maybe a new won but why do that he could have made a decent two part movie and made lots of money. That leads me into my next discussion, on the script. The script is well as i all ready talked about disappointing it really was being the author of the book wrote the movie script. He i guess thought little of the book he wrote himself and wanted to rewrite it, well here was his chance to- big mistake. This films script had a huge chance of doing well if the author cared more about the book. This movie is very very confusing , as i said before it jumps about 50 pages and it just does not fit well. Stuff is pushed way to hard ,way way to hard. Now onto the good stuff including the visual effects, cast, and the acting. This film's visuals are by far some of the most magnificent visuals i have seen this whole year, i'm not lying this is in my top two with Life of Pi. Every scene that includes visual effects look beautiful and great. Everything in this film look polished and cleaned and well just so Pretty to look at i mean it is just great. The visual effects were put in the hands of really good people because they made it look real yet something from a wild dream. I just wanted to watch the special effects alone for a long time. The cast was well cast, Rufus Sewell,Mary Elizabeth Winstead , and Anthony Mackie are the highlights but Benjamin Walker was a great casting choice for Abraham Lincoln, he looks and sounds like Abe would have , this film was just perfectly cast. The acting was great as well , Mary Elizabeth Winstead was just great to watch and our new Abe Lincoln was also a delightfully talented actor he was. All an All you can tell that everyone involved in this film tried their best (but the author himself Seth Grahame-Smith) this film just was not given the right script to deliver the film. C-