I'll Never be able to look at Abraham Lincoln the same again

Rating: 9/10 (15 December 2012)

As somebody said in a review, Steven Speilburg is going to have to do a pretty good job to be able to beat this movie, and in fact now that I have actually seen this movie, I am really not interested in the other movie that has been released about Lincoln. In a way, when Hollywood seems to want to make a movie such a Lincoln, two movie houses seem to try to beat the other in trying to make the better movie, however I have never seen an instance where one movie house makes a serious movie about a famous figure, and another movie house turns the same figure into a vampire hunter. Maybe they should do the same with Kennedy, or Nixon.
Anyway, the story begins with Lincoln at the age of nine when he rescues a young black friend of his from being whipped, and his parents rush in to protect him. However, the antagonist turns out to be a vampire and kills his mother that night, but Lincoln only discovers this when, at a much older age, decides to get his vengeance only to find himself being beaten to a pulp. Mind you, he is then rescued, and trained to hunt vampires.
As it turns out there is more to slavery in the south than a bunch of wealthy landowners wanting to utilise cheap labour. They are actually vampires and they have established themselves in the south and are using the Negro population as food for themselves. Realising that he requires much more clout than his axe (and having Lincoln swinging a vampire slaying axe is heaps cool), he decides to run for president and marshal the forces of the American army against this vampire menace.
This isn't a movie about Lincoln before he was president, in fact it is a movie of a much grander scope than that, turning his entire life into a war against the undead. Also, while this movie is quite cheesy in many ways, it seems that a lot of money was spent on it to make it visually impressive (and I notice that Tim Burton had his hand in its creation as well). In the end, I'm never going to be able to look at Abraham Lincoln the same again.