This film has an interesting premise, and that's basically it. What if vampires - creatures defined by their ability to jump really far - were real and the Great Emancipator fought them? This sounds like something that this crew could turn into something glorious, but the idea is not enough to carry the movie for its running time, although, mercifully, it's only 105 minutes long.
There is a lot of very obvious CGI, including a horse stampede so fake it hurts and the longest bridge of the world on fire. Maybe the film would have been more interesting if it had really tried to keep Lincoln's vampire hunting business in the shadows, maybe even concentrating on the necessities to keep the war secret. Instead, there is this huge bridge, which must be the engineering marvel of the world, only now it's on fire, and the fields of Gettysburg are left littered with solid silver cannonballs. The premise of the movie (there is a shadow war against vampires, and Lincoln was part of that) is left hanging in the air (a shadow war has to stay in the shadows, or it's just your standard, run-off-the-mill war). All that remains is a guy with a manifestly false Honest Abe chin strip twirling an axe before our tech level's variant of a painted backdrop.
Bekmambetov did the fascinating Night Watch and Day Watch - look for those instead.
One and a half gloating vampires
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