Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, the President that signed the Emancipation Proclamation to freed the slaves, discovers vampires have a plan to take over the United States. After the lost of his mother when he was a young boy, he makes it his mission to destroy them and seek revenge. This was a very different concept which I loved, some times movies can be very predictable but this movie had a strange twist to it. America's favorite president, a vampire hunter?????
After years of patiently waiting, Abe Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) seeks revenge of the death of his mother and encounters Henry Sturgess (Dominic Cooper) – he trains Abe in the art of vampire hunting and how to do tricks with the axe (which was pretty cool to watch). Henry told Abe to avoid making friends and/or starting a family, Lincoln befriends a local shop-keep, Joshua Speed (Jimmi Simpson), courts Mary Todd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and later married , and reconnects with childhood friend/free African-American, William Johnson (Anthony Mackie).
In the movie, the Civil War is a struggle between the living and the undead with our 16th president as a slayer of the bloodsuckers. The army of the South was actually VAMPIRES! (I was laughing at the movies when I saw them fighting against the troops in the North).
The movie was directed by Tim Burton (Visionary film maker) and Timur Bekmambetov.
Actors: Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Anthony Mackie and Dominic Cooper. Did you know Anthony Mackie (hurt locker, She Hates me, Adjustment Burearu, etc)was in this movie?
(Personal side note: I love how they make the vampires look like vampires and pretty vampires.)
If you love action, vision effects, and vampires then go see this movie.
Grade: A- ( many critics do not agree with me but I will tell them to have an imagination)
Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes
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