Good. Not really great.....

Rating: 6/10 (3 June 2013)

Day- Lewis, of course, is terrific in this. Sally Field kind of chewed the scenery a little. It did drag some; and I got that kind of Spielberg feel.....where it seems like he did audience surveys to come up with the final cut of the film.
If you read history, the Tommy Lee Jones character (Thad Stevens) was not exactly the gruff but lovable curmudgeon that the movie depicts him. I doubt that the Lincolns really took their servant's opinion on civil rights into consideration, and Lincoln himself was a pure pragmatist on the slavery issue.
Little nitpicking, but it's a good movie.