VividSimon
Simply Perfect
Comwayon
A Disappointing Continuation
Invaderbank
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
adonis98-743-186503
As the War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. Daniel-Day Lewis does indeed give a really good perfomance as President Lincoln and the make up is pretty spot on on capturing the likeness of the famous USA President. Unfortunately the film drags alot and the pacing was a pain in my eyes, this film was 150 minutes and despite the great cast and good perfomances the pacing did threw me off from the film. Steven Spielberg's direction is of course brilliant as always but it's still not good enough for me to give this film a fair and share pass. (5/10)
cinemajesty
Film Review: "Lincoln" (2012)Entirely built on Daniel Day-Lewis out-standing performance as the 16th President of The United States Abraham Lincoln (b. 1809) in office from 1861 to 1865 under the most violent Civil War with more than 500,000 soldiers deaths over differences in the way of living between "The South" and "The North", when Academy-Award-Winning director Steven Spielberg summons up the horrors of the independence aftermath in one fulminate shot of a puddle-drowning soldier with an opponent's foot in his face in the striking opening scene for "Lincoln" that then delivers a historically-accurate biopic picture for the ages written by playwright Tony Kushner, who had been sharing the script for "Munich" (2005) with DreamWorks Pictures, igniting on plenty dialogue for literally transforming vocal strings by Day-Lewis in ultra-stark, atmospheric as darkness-striving cinematography and dust and smoke pooling production design to indulge on.Director Steven Spielberg brings passion and skills to the project that paces through a fairly-receivable 140-Minute-Editorial by long-term "Team Spielberg" member Michael Kahn, who then utilizes the elegant visuals conceived by cinematographer Janusz Kaminski in scene-covering Spielberg-signature, shot-combining manners coming from a master-director's hand, whose only flaw has become to shy away from physical violence towards the second half of this highly-dramatic picture on a legendary as biographical-romanticized character of "Lincoln", when 12 Academy Award Nominations at the 85th edition of the Oscars Ceremony in February 2013 are righteously-earned, but can only be translated in two wins for the Leading Actor Daniel Day-Lewis and utmost authentic production design by Rick Carter due to a highly-competitive season, where pictures as "Life of Pi" directed by Ang Lee and "Django Unchained" directed by Quentin Tarantino just had been daring more in their individual film-making executions."Lincoln" must be enjoyed several times to fully comprehend its glory with a sublime supporting cast ranging from James Spader as votes-hunting, scenes-owning character of B.N. Bilbo, Sally Field as close-to a nervous breakdown wife Mary Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones as reptile-looking Thaddeus Stevens and my personal favorite scene of meeting heart-breaking Jackie Earle Haley's interpretation of historic Southerner Alexander Stephens, when Southern surrenders are nigh in a slowly-received second half of this unless railroading empathetic motion picture, when audiences must realize that fighting for a cause as abandon slavery has only one winner that is the people. © 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend
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Robert D. Ruplenas
No question this film will endure as one of the great historical/biographical cinematic masterpieces, right up there with "Lawrence of Arabia," "Becket," and "A Man for all Seasons" (the version with Paul Scofield). First off, Daniel Day Lewis' performance as Lincoln is stunning, fully demonstrating Lincoln's indomitable will, his political cunning, and both his humor and his melancholy. Sally Field as Mary Lincoln shows she is a great actress. Tommy Lee Jones shines as Thaddeus Stevens. The host of great supporting actors is too long to enumerate. Then there is the script, a slap in the face to the mindless pablum so common to movies nowadays. Tony Kushner has written an extremely intelligent, historically informed script about Lincoln's struggle to pass the 13th amendment, and all the legal and moral complexities involved in that struggle. It is truly aimed at thoughtful, intelligent adults. This is simply a must-see film.
Kingslaay
I had high hopes for Lincoln, one of most respected figures in American History. We know there was a lot of material that could be dramatized regarding this great man's life. However I was quite disappointed. The film only focused on a certain part of his life. Now if you direct it with enough finesse and make it captivating then it could be a great film. This has been done successfully with 13 Days about the JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis. However this period of Lincoln's life was dramatized in quite a dull manner as it followed the legislative hurdle Lincoln faced. It was disappointing to take such a large figure like Lincoln and make a film about his battles with Congress when there was so much more that occurred in his life that was more eventful and entertaining. If one were to make a film today about JFK with the tag line JFK or Kennedy one would expect a more complete and eventful dramatization of his life. We would not expect Kennedy spending most of the film fighting with Congress and observe a 100 days worth of this legislative battle. Therefore it follows that a film called Lincoln or about him should have been more complete and eventful or if it were about a period, choose an interesting period. Congress and political battles are not worth dramatizing. Perhaps the title should have been renamed to 'The Bill' or Emancipation Bill or something specific. Besides the big flaws the acting was very good and DDL deserved an Oscar for his portrayal. 6.5
