Well-Made but Boring as Heck

Rating: 6/10 (18 May 2016)

Lincoln follows Abraham Lincoln as he attempts to give freedom to black people during the last four months while he was president.
The plot is fine. It's very much a political movie, and it wasn't horribly interesting to me. It's presentation isn't great though. As a whole it's well-made, but it's just so boring. It often uses dark colors for no other reason that I can find other than to put the audience to sleep. I think that the same story could have been told in less than 150 minutes, considering how much of the movie I thought was entirely pointless. As soon as the climax finished I was ready to fall asleep, even more so than the rest of the movie. I saw no reason to continue, and yet I did, and every last minute droned on and on until it finally ended 30 minutes later.
The characters are decent. Most of them aren't too interesting, but that's just thanks to the pacing, so it's hard to care when it's so hard to pay attention. Abraham Lincoln himself is the most interesting character. Danial Day-Lewis does a great job playing him. He's consistent in both the way he talks and the way he moves. The other actors were all just fine, but most of them were barely as important as Lincoln himself. The list of secondary characters would actually be pretty long, considering the only character who consistently and often shows up is Lincoln himself.
Overall Lincoln is well-made with a good lead actor and character, but it's far too boring to fully appreciate. I found myself rewinding on multiple occasions because I'd doze off or zone out and have no idea what was going on. Maybe I was just in the wrong mindset, I don't know, but I won't be watching it again any time soon. In the end I wouldn't recommend this movie.