Typical Hollywood, just can't help themselves

Rating: 3/10 (5 December 2013)

Spielberg, remember when he directed good movies? It's been awhile hasn't it? This is another in a long run of mediocre yet critically overrated movies. The acting was pretty bad. I didn't think Sally Fields could have over exaggerated her emotions & facial expressions anymore than she did in The Amazing Spider-Man but she certainly managed to do so as Mrs. Lincoln. Daniel Day Lewis has been hailed as giving us a great performance. If you believe grinning & smirking dictate a great performance then you'll like him here. He portrays him physically as slow, calm, cool, with deliberate movements. Then he inexplicably blows up a couple of times to such an extent that he curses G-- D--n! Tommy Lee Jones (whom I usually love) came off as pompous & self righteous in his role. The title of the flick is even misleading, it's not much about Lincoln but much more about the once great 13th amendment which has subsequently been bastardized by the Supreme Court many times since. The opening scene where a Negro(as called in the movie) was giving Lincoln the riot act complaining about the lack of Negroes doing this job or that job, pay, etc. While that certainly falls in line with more modern times, it rings hollow & unbelievable in this scene given the time period. There were a couple of other idiotic scenes given the time period but I honestly don't want to discuss them. my review is long enough without them. So called conservatives take yet another Hollywood hit here. They still voted the correct way even though they didn't get what they wanted but yet, we can't make a political movie without a conservative bash, now can we? The amendment had already passed the Senate but I guess we're to believe no conservatives existed in that chamber of Congress. Wrapping this up, Spielberg has his money so like all other liberals that have their money to, they just can't resist bleeding all over the viewer while conservative bashing as well. I don't get it! I will always think back to Michael Jordan when asked why he didn't comment on political subjects, he stated, "Republicans buy tennis shoes too!" Thank the God that this Lincoln kept damning that I didn't pay to go see it. I watched it on Netflix.