So. What the hell was this?

Rating: 1/10 (27 September 2018)

I have to say it. I shouldn't have seen this movie, but a best friend of mine loves all the types of action movies. So, I watched it just to share a ""fun"" moment with him one random day.
Well, into the movie. I just don't understand. I thought the movie would be self aware from the start. Instead what I watched was a ridiculous mashup of ""serious"" Lincoln scenes, exploring his life (maybe not accurately) but with real scenes. And between those moments we got the ridiculous, but expected given the title, scenes where we find out he's more than a political figure growing and finding love, but a Vampire Hunter. After that we switch back to the ""serious"" scene, and we repeat the cicle.
And that's when it lost me. As soon as we got serious scenes, relatively well acted, without jokes (that I was aware off) and without a hint of irony (again, that was my impression), the movie completely lost me. Benjamin Walker was ""too good"" for this movie to work. Im pretty sure that's what the directors wanted out of him, but it was a bad decision. He was an imposing figure with a serious face acting as much as he could the weight of his ""growing love"" and ""passion for his country"". And yet those scenes were followed by him talking to a random exposition guy about the need for killing the vampires. It just didn't work. I was bored with the serious scenes and baffled by the admittedly good action scenes.
In the end, I don't hate this movie, It's a kind of ridicoulness that do not works with me, where the ""joke"" is the action/blood and not actual jokes or sarcastic/ironic hits at history. But I guess I can understand why some might like and even love the movie.