The Civil War was never taught like this

Rating: 6/10 (22 June 2012)

If Bruce Catton or Shelby Foote were still alive those distinguished historians would never recognize the Civil War, especially for the root causes shown here. Black slaves aren't an institution in the South for agriculture, to pick cotton and tobacco. They are in bondage for a far more sinister purpose, as food for vampires who have taken control in the south.
Their untiring foe is Abraham Lincoln who fights them not on the political battle front, but by night due to his training as a railsplitter, he's pretty handy with an axe. He's hated the vampires ever since childhood when one of them killed his mother Nancy Hanks Lincoln. And here you thought she died of some frontier fever malady.
Benjamin Walker plays Lincoln and Dominic Cooper plays the mysterious Henry Sturgess who becomes his mentor. Lincoln should only have had the kind of moves Bruce Lee would have envied in his life. Who would have thought it, Abraham Lincoln: Action Hero.
You have to see how the fate of the nation at the Battle of Gettysburg is decided. Not to be believed.
Everyone looked like they were having a grand old time making this film. And of course it's all claptrap, but enjoyable claptrap at that.