"It's one of the best films that I have ever seen about a famous historical figure!"

Rating: 10/10 (9 April 2013)

I re-watched Lincoln on Bluray about two days ago and I thought the movie was so incredible. The movie is of course a historical drama flick directed and produced by Steven Spileberg. The movie is about the final four months of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis during an ongoing American Civil War in 1865.The plot mostly focuses on Lincoln adding the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. constitution that was passed by the United States House of Representatives to free the African American slaves. The movie is based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin's historical book called Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. The motion picture also stars Sally Field as First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, Joseph Gordon Levitt as Robert Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, Hal Holbrook (he also played Lincoln in the 1970s TV mini-series that has the same name of the movie) as Preston Blair, James Spader as W.N. Bilbo and John Hawkes as Robert Latham.
I honestly thought that Daniel Day-Lewis absolutely portrayed a very realistic role as Abraham Lincoln. Seeing D-Day Lewis portraying Lincoln is like seeing Abraham Lincoln portraying himself. The two reasons that made Lincoln look like he is portraying himself from the movie is the way that they made the makeup look realistic and D-Day Lewis speaking with Lincoln's perfect Kentucky accent. Those are also the two reasons why I thought D-Day Lewis portrayed a very realistic role as Abe Lincoln. D-Day did not just portrayed a realistic role as Lincoln, it's hands down he definitely portrayed the best Abraham Lincoln ever.
My prediction on Daniel Day-Lewis winning his third Oscar for best actor for his role as Abe Lincoln came true and those are of course the reasons why I predicted D-Day Lewis on winning an Oscar. Even though I loved Lincoln, but my favorite Daniel Day-Lewis film will always be My Left Foot (He won his first Oscar for best actor from that film).
Steven Spielberg made a perfect choice of hiring D-Day Lewis portraying Abe Lincoln due to that he looks like Abraham Lincoln pretty much with his beard and the height. Before Steven Spielberg hired Daniel-Day Lewis, Liam Neeson was his first choice to portray Lincoln ever since the development of the film began but, he decided to drop out because he felt that was too old to portray the role after waiting several years for the project to start .Even though I love Liam Neeson as an actor but, his role is not perfect because he doesn't have look the Abe Lincoln look to him on his face and he especially doesn't have a beard that looks like his.Apparently, Daniel Day Lewis is only five years younger than Liam Neeson, but D-Day's age is close to Lincoln's age in the movie.So, that is one of the reasons why he took the role.
It was very impressive on the way they did the voting of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to end slavery in the movie. The Thirteenth Amendment was of course passed and If I was one of those congressman my vote would be yes to stop slavery. Well, Steven Spielberg did an outstanding effort on directing the thirteen amendment voting scene that it felt like it the voting session was actually recorded it in a actual film camera at The House of Representatives back in 1865 and then many years later, they digitally restored it.
I highly recommend that movie for history buffs and people in general. The people that have a passion on history would of course love this movie.The film in my opinion is one of Steven Spileberg's best movies. There are even other biographical films that actors portrayed their realistic look a like real person roles just like Denzel Washington as Malcolm X from Spike Lee's Malcolm X and Ben Kingsley as Gandhi from Gandhi. I give the motion picture 10 out of 10 stars.