Finally, a movie just as good as I wanted it to be!! Damn the critics, this movie was great fun! If you read, and liked, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, then you will like this movie. The same writer does the same thing, and it is very clever. The well-known story of Abraham Lincoln is imbued with a touch of the supernatural by adding vampires!
Tim Burton and the guy that did Wanted, Timur Bekmambetov, directed this film. That means that it is somewhat gruesome and has crazy, slow-motion battle scenes. It also means that this is going to be even more emphasized in 3D. And strangely enough, I didn't even mind the 3D, it actually fit with this movie because the style was enhanced by the 3D, not changed to make it 3D.
Benjamin Walker, who looks A LOT like Liam Neeson, did a great job as young and old Abraham Lincoln. Dominic Cooper and Rufus Sewell were also great, as usual. Rufus Sewell is a reliably good evil person and Dominic Cooper adds some badass-ness to his already diverse skill set.
Some of the turns or surprises were pretty predictable and the story makes a bit of a mockery of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and really that whole time period. However, it is still great fun, if you realize what you are watching is just for fun. I mean really, the title is Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer, you're not supposed to take it seriously. But that doesn't mean it's supposed to be the same kind of thing as Not Another Teen Movie. This means that it is a serious story in a ridiculous setting. This means that you are supposed to take the movie seriously and not seriously all at the same time. It's great!
In the end, I give this movie 8 out of 10!
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