Eh....Not So Great

Rating: 1/10 (11 February 2013)

Save your money! I kept waiting to be overwhelmingly impressed while watching this interminable movie. Never was. Had this been Spielberg's first movie I'm not sure there would have been a second. His nomination for best director while Ben Affleck was ignored by the Academy was ridiculous. This movie was very graphic which could be considered a public service announcement - namely "throwing body parts into open pits may be hazardous to public health and may devalue property adjacent" It was refreshing to see the "great" Abe's realistic family reaction to his wife's mental problems.Kind of like real family members that want people to "just get over it already!" It was the first sympathy ever shown to poor Mary Todd. I wonder if anyone ever considered her insistence on referring to her husband as "Mr President" as the sarcasm I think it may have been. I loathed seeing her on her knees to this Great Emancipator"