Lincoln ( So So Effort)

Rating: 4/10 (24 November 2012)

This movie while historically significant just doesn't cut the mustard. The ending itself seeks to have the audience sympathetic with Abe instead being in pain over the assassination. The point of this movie is passage of the 13th amendment and what Lincoln did at every turn to insure he could get the votes. I would have much preferred his inner conflict to be displayed. Instead, Spielberg makes him out to be godlike instead of human. This image of Lincoln seeks only to editorialize on him rather than show him to be a tragic figure caught in a time of great difficulty. The only good acting in his movie is by James Spader who may have earned himself his first Oscar. Otherwise it is once persons views of the events at the time of the civil war. I don't expect this to be a box office hit but critics will laud it as they view these types of movies positively while most people will take it as average. Last nights audience did not even respond well to this movie as evidence of why I rated it as such.