150 minutes of bad.

Rating: 1/10 (6 July 2014)

Daniel Day Lewis was superb, as he is in every movie he's in. That is it. This was just a drama Oscar hopeful. No conflict. My mistake, the plot was terrible. I argue the plot because they could have made it more dramatic, more interesting, more uplifting with the most historic event in the history of the United States. Sally Field was terrible. The worst is that it dragged on, for 2.5 hours! The entire movie is summed up in one scene; when the military generals are strategizing in the war room and Lincoln interrupts to tell a story. Edwin Stanton interrupts and yells "NO! Not one of your long boring stories again! I can't take it!" and then Stanton leaves. It was at this point of the movie I nearly walked out of the theater, and I should have. This movie sucked and I don't know why we praised it. Lincoln deserved better, and we, the people, deserved better.