Nope

Rating: 1/10 (8 January 2015)

I only managed to watch 50 mins of this film. How can a film set during one of the bloodiest conflicts in American history be this boring? Watching this was like sitting in on a session of parliament. Politicians are boring by nature (at least in the public eye) and from what I saw of it that's all this film had to offer, boring politicians sucking the life out of even the most interesting subjects. The bravado and one-upmanship of debating politicians is both nauseating and frustrating.
I don't care how many awards it won or how many of you have a hard on for Daniel Day Lewis, this film is unwatchable. Day-Lewis doesn't carry this film like everyone says. I was never taken in by it, I never thought I was watching Abraham Lincoln talk about slavery, the whole time I just thought "Wow, Day-Lewis is really hamming it up here. I wonder if Spielberg is even directing? Or did he just say, "ah, do whatever you want.""
It moves at a snails pace, seriously, continents move faster than this film and at 150min long you're going to feel every second of it. I only managed a third and felt like I wasted part of my life. Enough with these overlong portentous melodrama's. While we're on the subject of overlong portentous melodramas, There will be Blood can take a hike as well! You think watching someone sitting around doing a Sean Connery impression for hours is entertainment?
On the plus side.... the costumes looked pretty good.