Political Thriller

Rating: 8/10 (10 December 2012)

"Lincoln" is a political thriller that focuses on the president's behind the scenes efforts to get the Thirteenth Amendment passed through Congress during the last days of the Civil War. When the outcome of the war was shaping up to be a Union victory, President Lincoln, masterfully played by Daniel Day-Lewis, was afraid that the slaves freed by the Emancipation Proclamation and now fighting as soldiers for the Union would be re-enslaved and returned to their former owners as property. With the help of Representative Thaddeus Stevens, Tommy Lee Jones in a ferocious performance, Lincoln has Union agents contact Democrat legislators on an individual basis in the hope of getting votes for the amendment.