The film is unnecessarily too long and has the weakest ending possible.

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2012)

Cutting the many repetitious scenes of the House of Representatives would save the film at least fifteen minutes in length. Chopping the ending would save it another six or seven. The perfect ending is this: Lincoln is walking away, on his way to the theater, he discards his gloves, continues toward the arched window, descends the stairs, makes a hard right turn and leaves the building...fade to black. the end. We all know what happened after that, and considering the fact that is wasn't a biography, but a study of the passage of the thirteenth amendment. This ending would be much more arresting and dramatic...and appropriate.