Good acting, but the whole story is just boring

Rating: 4/10 (12 January 2013)

If you're expecting some mind-blowing movie (and why wouldn't you do with 12 Oscar nominations), well, you're gonna be pretty disappointed. Asides of Daniel Day-Lewis' acting, which is quite okay, the whole story is just flat, from the beginning till the end. There is nothing new in it at all, it is lack of any twists, original idea and excitement. For me it was like a brunch of similar movies montaged together - and montaged really badly from the perspective of excitement.
You have a president struggling a lot, but finally succeeding, a son, who joins the war despite of the prohibition of the father, a worried mother, an excited little brother, who does not really get the whole picture; of course politicians in the White House roaring like an uncivilized horde, some caring more about their personal benefits than the future of the country...and most of all, boring debates and discussions about slavery again and again and again and again and...