Entertaining and fun

Rating: 8/10 (27 October 2012)

I thought I was going to hate this movie but I was wrong. Turns out it was a fun and entertaining movie to watch. It doesn't take itself to seriously and is much better than sitting around watching a boring "Twilight" vampire depression fest.
The story is about a boy Abraham Lincoln, who witness the murder of his mother by a vampire. A Young Lincoln, now older, plots his revenge and in a drunk failed attempt is rescued by Henry Sturges(Dominic Cooper). Henry makes a pact to teach Lincoln to kill vampires, but only those that Henry tells him to, and eventually he will get his chance to reap revenge. Lincoln(Benjamin Walker) grows older, gets married, and studies to be a lawyer, to find that Vampires are on the side of the Confederates and he vows to save humanity from their grasp.
The action and acting is over the top but in a good way. The sets, editing, and script have a fun appeal and feels sort of like a comic book story which makes it not so serious but very entertaining. This movie was made to be fun, and it accomplishes that.
The only thing that scares me about this movie is that our education system is so bad that I would hate to think these kids would grow up and the only thing they may know about Lincoln is that he was a Vampire Hunter. So enjoy the movie, have fun watching it, but don't let your kids think it is fact ;)...It's an 8 for me.