the most boring movie ever made

Rating: 2/10 (8 February 2013)

Unbelievably dull. I had to literally force myself to sit through this awful movie. It's exclusively about the righteousness of passing legislation to free the slaves and persuading other politicians to vote for the 13th amendment (over 2 hours of this). Unfortunately, that one issue is so all-consuming in the film that it seems as though anything else about Lincoln's life or even the civil war itself (except for the slavery aspect) is so insignificant that it wasn't worth inclusion in the movie. OK OK I got it. Free the slaves, got it. Freedom is good, got it. Blacks are people too, got it. If you go to see this movie prepare yourself for one very very long soap box speech. dull dull dull.