It comes and goes

Rating: 7/10 (9 July 2012)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a film that appears to either be just a title joke or a joke trailer. It is difficult to envisage a film really coming out of this. The film does bring an origin to the Vampire hunting and doesn't attempt to dump the viewer straight into the action. However the film's run time means it struggles and makes it very sloppy. We get an origin but it is again a very sloppy one. It's nothing that you didn't see coming and fails to blow you away at any point. The film simply doesn't offer anything refreshing but it is fairly enjoyable bringing plenty of action throughout. The action starts out very well but then descends into what many action films become. A particular action scene involving a stampede of horses feels like it has no weight to it. It would look spectacular in an animated film but the CGI hasn't progressed enough where a large group of animals can look realistic in an action film. It looked like a flurry of images. The film does succeed in being engaging with the final action scene making up for any loss of weight in the previous action sequences. Acting wise it is just satisfactory where the performances are decent enough. I never really quite feel the pain that Lincoln is going through surrounding his mourning but its probably because we have this sort of thing many times before. Overall the film is a decent action yarn but does not really bring anything new but does entertain for the most part.