A great movie

Rating: 9/10 (21 November 2012)

"Lincoln", is well executed without straying too far away or over- dramatizing it from the historical and realistic beauty of the actual story of Lincoln. I walked into the theater expecting this film to be quite boring and over run with exaggerated drama however, I was proved wrong. Each character was done tastefully and grasped my attention. I felt sorrow, shame, happiness, excitement, and worried; although I already had an outline of the story of Lincoln, I still felt anticipation and curiosity of what the outcome of the 13th amendment vote would be. Daniel Day-Lewis preformed his roll as Lincoln phenomenally, by grasping Lincoln's elephant-like demeanor of strength, wisdom, and power beautifully. The film also did excellent work of incorporating humor without it seeming to fish for laughter from the audience. The only reason this movie did not receive a perfect score of 10 from me is due to the ending camera work. At the beginning of the last speech I instantly though of A Christmas Carol because of Lincoln's figure in the flame, I became irritated because of this holiday-like feel. Along with this, the transitioning was too slow and therefore became annoying to where I, unlike before the ending speech, wanted this movie to be over and done with so I did not have to sit there and wait for the screen not to look like a middle school student put this together like a slide show. The camera work felt like the makers of the film were trying to drag on the movie, I felt bored for this sluggish and lazy approach for what could have still had me at the edge of my seat in tears and clinging onto each of Lincoln's riveting speech. Despite the ending camera work, the rest of the film is wonderful and I highly recommend it for those who don't quite get history because this film will bring interest to that and many other kinds of audience members.