This Could Be the Most Boring Movie this Year

Rating: 5/10 (10 January 2013)

First let me say I a huge fan of most Steven Spielberg movies, Lincoln does not fall into this category.
The title character was acted well by Daniel Day Lewis. Sally Fields was fine as the somewhat subdued, and fresh home from the asylum, Mary Todd Lincoln.
A movie such as this, should do 1 of 2 things, it should be highly entertaining with lots of action, OR it should illuminate something in history that most people don't know. This film does neither, the pacing of this movie was slow, slower and slowest. I didn't learn anything about Lincoln that I didn't learn in 5th grade history class, and I certainly was not entertained.
This movie will win a lot of Oscars simply because Hollywood likes to think of themselves as something more that entertainers, and movies like this make them self-important.
I would recommend this to anyone who finds themselves with a bad case of insomnia this will put anyone to sleep