Right movie but wrong title

Rating: 3/10 (5 May 2013)

To say this is boring is beyond obvious. I stayed more interested during my history classes in high school. But beyond that is the fact that the title of the film is simply dishonest. As many people have posted, this is not the life story of Lincoln and Spielberg certainly never intended it to be. It really is about the fight for passage of the 13th amendment and Lincoln's part in it. It should have been titled "Lincoln And The Battle For The Thirteenth Amendment"
It's obvious why it was not titled that way. How many people would have gone to see it with that title? You have to be interested in political history to want to see it. Calling it Lincoln surely got it a much wider attention before it played for even the first time and people knew little about it. From a marketing standpoint that was a brilliant decision. But the fact is that this should have been on TV on cable's History Channel and not on the Biography Channel.