Lincoln

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levit, James Spader Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones
Genre: Biography/Drama/History 2012
Running time: 150 mins.
Rating:★★★

This inspiring and revealing dram focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final four months in office as this visionary leader pursues a course of action to end the Civil War, unite the country and abolish slavery.

Though beautiful look at what went on during those last four months, the dialogue is a long-winded and unrealistic poem. Too theatrical. It does show the burden and struggle that one man journeys to change the course of the country for better. Enjoy the dark contrasts in both cinematography and costume design to illustrate at dark time in U.S. history. Tommy Lee Jones's performance is surprisingly the strongest of the whole cast. He brings a strength, powerhouse, and intelligence to the character of Thaddeus Stevens. Daniel Day-Lewis, obviously came from household of a poet, delivers his lines with beautiful rhetoric, but is hardly a believable Lincoln.

The movie gets a bit hokey when trying to get the votes for the 13th Amendment with quick scene jumping, hoe-down music, and attempted humorously witty dialogue. Set design is very well thought out from the photographs to the tapestry, allowing the audience to feel that they are a fly on the wall observing these American "heroes" as real people, not as a legend or stories.