Lincoln not one of Spielberg's best

Rating: 7/10 (28 January 2013)

This is foremost an intellectual (talking) movie. I don't mind but this doesn't mean a movie should feel too long for the content. Of course the presidency of Lincoln and the subject (abolitionism) is worth a movie but an entire movie on the process to get rid of slavery? The murder on Lincoln is never explained, nor where he came from or what his background was.
On the other hand, Lincoln is not portrayed as a romantic hero because he simply wasn't. He corrupted officials, seamed to think that democracy is also engaging in war when the enemy does not agree, humiliating your political opponents and finally ask them to sign the 13th amendment. Finally celebrate the idea of democratic voting.
Where the movie fails is it takes 2 1/2 hours to tell the story, the figure Lincoln seams to appear from no where suddenly fighting against slavery. The process behind the man's motivation is taken for granted.
The acting is top class, the action scenes are very scarce but effective, but since the movie is titled Lincoln I expected to see a more complete biography.