Honest Abe just moved up a notch or two on my "Favorite Presidents of All Time" thanks to this movie.
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Seriously, the man freed the slaves AND defeated the North American Vampire menace all at once...
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
The story:
Young Abraham Lincoln witnesses something..unusual... as a young boy. What appears to be a vampire kills his mother when he's just a boy. That sets young Abraham on a path of vengeance. Luckily, he meets someone who is willing to teach young Abe the tricks of the trade of tangling with the undead. And so... a legend was born!
Okay, really, this movie is way better than it has any right to be. It lives up to the title, in spades. There are two ways to approach this subject. Over-the-top parody or play it straight.
They opt to play it straight, and it makes the movie work.
Even the oddities of the deaths in Lincoln's family are explained away under cover of the vampire myth. It's an enjoyable diversion with decent performances by all the actors involved. Not a whole lot of names in this film, yet some very familiar faces fill the landscape from Lincoln's friends to his bloodsucking enemies.
And the best part?
These vampires don't sparkle.
Just throwing that out there...
I'm thinking that while Spielberg's Lincoln will garner the Oscar buzz, this will be the more entertaining of the two Lincoln pics in theaters this year.
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Worth a spin!
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