Wasn't the best

Rating: 5/10 (30 November 2015)

Watching the movie Lincoln, you may get mixed feelings about this movie. You can't really tell if you are watching a historical movie on how President Lincoln passed the 13th amendment, or are you watching a movie about Lincolns family issues?
In the very beginning of the movies you have that feeling that you are about to watch a historical movie. The first scene you see is of two black soldiers talking to president Lincoln, talking as equals about what would happen if they won the war. It is very moving at the end of this scene when one of the black soldiers walk away reciting the Gettysburg Address.
Before watching this movie I had set in my mind that this movie would portray how Lincoln ended slavery, not the family issues he had to deal with. In this movie you watch a few different scenes where Lincoln is arguing with his wife and his eldest son. These arguments do not have anything to do with slavery.
In the end this movie was entertaining, but it did not give much information on how Lincoln ended slavery, it gave an overview on the end of slavery. Not much detail about how Lincoln ended slavery was in this movie.