Not equal to my expectations

Rating: 5/10 (2 March 2013)

Do you have to see the full movie, in order to write a review? I only saw about one hour of this movie before I wanted to leave the theater. So I will not call this a "review", for which I am not qualified, anyway, just the expression of my personal disappointment . I expected to see a great movie about one of the greatest figures of the American History, and saw a movie about a petty politician, a joke cracker, a "little" man. I seems as if they deliberately made this movie as talky, awkward, tedious and uninspired as possible. If this was their intention, they were certainly successful. As for D.D.Lewis portrayal of Lincoln, I am afraid he left me totally unmoved. I believe he has by now established himself as a character actor. His mannerisms, his weird expressions, bizarre half-smiles and small voice, in combination with his "restrained" acting, makes me wonder if this is really "Lincoln", or an insignificant and unimportant relative that took his place by mistake. And yet I read that he prepared for this role for years and he got the Academy Award. What can one say except that this brings to mind Andersen's tale of "the Emperor's new clothes"... Maybe when this movie is released as DVD, I will try to see it again, in case I discover something that I missed in the first viewing, although I believe that first impressions are always right.