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Lincoln (2012)

Rate: 5
Viewed: 10/23

Linc
10/23: Lincoln is a misleading title because it's all about the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment (no surprise there, hence the overall lack of suspense).

That being said, it's a boring movie with an overrated performance by Daniel Day-Lewis. There's no reason to turn the topic into a movie because I want to be entertained, not be bored by a series of torturous lectures which only belong in a book. Like Amistad which was also directed by Steven Spielberg, I fell asleep plenty of times.

It's impossible for me to tell if any of the presented content is true. Wikipedia mentions, "The screenplay by Tony Kushner was loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln." Loosely? Okay, there you have it. Some of the stuff was made up anyway: many characters weren't real, the names of people who voted "no" had been changed, and there was no drama happening during the pivotal scene; it was only paper balloting.

All in all, Lincoln is B-O-R-I-N-G that's filled with incomprehensible dialogue that would've been cleaned up by a more gifted writer than Tony Kushner.