Deceptive

Rating: 1/10 (14 January 2013)

Title, movie posters, and trailers for this movie are deceptive. You will leave the theater without learning much if anything about either Lincoln or Civil War. It was entertaining, but entertainment only was not what I was looking for in this political/war drama. More appropriate name for this smoothie should be- 13th Amendment. Even then, film is biased and inaccurate. You can easily find and read about many factual errors. I understand, you can't make factual movie about specific Egyptian pharaoh, but Lincoln lived 150 years ago, and we didn't use hieroglyphs then. 8 out of 10 rating? Not even close. For such movie to be 8+ would need to be much more then just entertaining. I would give it a 6, eventually 7 for great acting, cinematography, costume design if misleading methods were not used to get you to buy theater tickets. Spielberg should continue making movies for kids, something he is actually good at.