Everything a good story should have - except accuracy.

Rating: 5/10 (22 January 2016)

Brilliantly acted with gifted veterans is the movie Lincoln. Lewis' performance is truly epic; he IS Lincoln. Sally Field was undeniably wooden in the first few scenes but by the end she had clearly grown to understand and portray the complicated and unstable Mary. Casting must have taken a great deal of time to fit the parts so well to the actors.
What must be noted is that this movie does not claim to be a documentary, fortunately, for the script is nowhere even close to actual events - especially the dramatic dialog. It is as though a screenplay were found about the struggle to pass the thirteenth amendment, and someone said; 'Hey, lets make it a movie about Abraham Lincoln. The viewpoint is another in the seemingly endless self-loathing Tinseltown propaganda expenditures of how evil White Men are. The most galling departure from history is the portrayal of the Republicans as being more resistant than always-loving Democrats to abolition. In fact, Democrats fought the thirteenth amendment to the end and were the majority vote to kill it.