The violence quickly becomes numbing, and Benjamin Walker plays Lincoln without the sense of irony needed to keep the historical and supernatural sides of the story consistently entertaining.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Are you a patriot or a vampire?
2012 · 1h 45m · R
Action, Fantasy, Horror
Directed by
Timur Bekmambetov
Overview
President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.
Director and cast
- Timur Bekmambetov Director
- Benjamin Walker as Abraham Lincoln
- Dominic Cooper as Henry Sturgess
- Anthony Mackie as Will Johnson
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Mary Todd Lincoln
- Rufus Sewell as Adam
- John Rothman as Jefferson Davis
- Marton Csokas as Jack Barts
- Alex Lombard as Gabrielle
- Jimmi Simpson as Joshua Speed
- Teri Wyble as Henry's Wife
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The movie plays safe by cutting every theme down the middle - a swing that's effective when splitting wood or vampire skulls, but dull when applied to filmmaking.
Of course it's ridiculous and tasteless and grotesque. It's ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER.
The disconnect between intention and final product is a head scratcher.
Bekmambetov doesn't expect us to take the premise seriously, exactly. But he doesn't seem to want us to laugh at it, either.
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