Not interesting for a non-American

Rating: 1/10 (9 June 2015)

Movies that feature two and a half hours of debate over politics are usually not my favourite to begin with, but I assume that this movie's target demographic was people that already knew what the movie was about.
As an Australian, I had little knowledge of the events that the film explored, and I had never heard of most of the characters in the events themselves.
I imagine this kind of a movie is something that makes Americans proud and patriotic, but I just couldn't sit through any more political dialogue, and I turned it off.
More often than not, it felt like a history lesson. There was nothing exciting or dramatic, it was barely even eventful. So many times there would be a big moment in the film that got all the characters worked up, and I had no idea what was going on.
Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention, but I found it nearly impossible to concentrate that hard on perhaps the driest subject matter a screenwriter could choose for over two hours.
Don't get me wrong, it's a well-put-together movie, and Daniel Day-Lewis makes a very convincing Abraham Lincoln, but simply put, it's boring
When all is said and done, I knew how it was going to end, so there was no suspense, I had no ties to or interest in the subject matter, so it wasn't inspiring, and I didn't understand what was going on, so it wasn't entertaining.
I can't say for Americans, but I certainly wouldn't recommend this for anyone else.