Daniel Day-Lewis elevates an otherwise just decent period movie

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2018)

Let's start by stating the obvious: Daniel Day-Lewis is amazing, a luminary, a beautiful, perfect, flawless, shining beacon of actorship, one of the, if not the, single greatest actors of our time and just an all around daddy. No real recordings of Abraham Lincoln exist, obviously, duh, but if Lincoln somehow came back to life, I would probably have to tell him to his face that I expected much more of him and that he simply can't stack up to what Daniel Daddy-Lewis made him out to be. His portrayal of the historical figure of Abraham Lincoln will forever be what I'll be thinking of when I read any of his speeches or watch any random YouTube video about the American Civil War made by some fat guy from the mid-west.
Something else to be admired were the extensive, beautiful period-accurate backdrops that is almost expected from Spielberg movies at this point. I only really noticed a blue-screen background being used once, when Lincoln was surveying the aftermath of the Siege of Petersburg. All the other hallmarks of Spielberg directing were present as well. Solid cinematography and casting decisions, combined with the director's experience surely made it easier for the stars of the movie to shine in the way they did.