Wow, Just...wow, Wow,

Rating: 10/10 (10 January 2013)

I normally don't post reviews on here. Let's face it, and I admit it, I'm no movie expert. And I don't pretend to be. It's not my place. But, every now and then, a movie comes out that hits me SO HARD that I HAVE to write SOMETHING about it...and then Lincoln come out, and it was one of those movies.
And I first have to start by talking about Daniel Day-Lewis. He has a reputation within Hollywood for being a method actor and completely immersing himself within his roles, both mentally and physically. And, knowing that, I knew that he would do the same when playing, without a doubt, one of our greatest Presidents...but I didn't expect what I got. Let me put it this way - if Daniel Day-Lewis doesn't win the Best Actor Oscar, I completely give up on the Oscars, because it'd prove they're nothing more than a high school popularity contest. I felt like I was watching Abraham Lincoln on the screen, I felt like Day-Lewis didn't exist. I was so blown away by Day-Lewis in this movie that I actually had to see it twice to BELIEVE it. He was amazing.
Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones, as Mary Todd Lincoln and Thaddeus Stevens, respectively, were also scene stealers in their performances. In a VERY performance-driven movie, neither of them were overshadowed. Sally Field was able to draw into all of the...ahem...quirks, of Mary Lincoln, and Tommy Lee Jones, as always and as one of my favorite actors, played Stevens to perfection - and even taught me things that I myself didn't know, and I'm the biggest history buff you'll ever meet.
Steven Spielberg and the cast hit this home run WAY out of the park, and if it doesn't SWEEP the Oscars, there is something TERRIBLY wrong! I am SO amazed that I can't wait to see it AGAIN, because I STILL don't believe it.
Way to go!