A well acted, but rather dry movie

Rating: 8/10 (4 January 2015)

Lincoln was a movie that had great acting from every key person in the film. Daniel Day- Lewis did an amazing job as the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, especially for someone you don't hear about often in world of acting. The other acting that I thought was very well done was by Tommy Lee Jones as the radical republican pushing for abolishing slavery, Thaddeus Stevens. There was also good supporting acting by James Spader as W.N. Bilbo, Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing the role of Robert Todd Lincoln, and Sally Field playing the part of Abraham Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. The main downfall of this movie was that until the ending where a vote is being taken for whether or not the 13th amendment is to be passed it wasn't really exciting, it didn't have much of a thrill to it. Although there is not much you can do to make a movie exciting with the type of movie Lincoln is, it still was indeed dry and a little bit too long for how boring it was. Nonetheless, Lincoln was a well acted and well done movie and it is definitely a movie for you if you're interested in the Civil War era.