Abraham Lincoln – Vampire Hunter (2012)

Abraham Lincoln – Vampire Hunter (2012)

I hear this film could only be better than Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (2001)! I haven’t seen it, but I think it has a whole community that loves it, as evidenced by this comment: “Wow! Jesus, vampires, a Mexican wrestler, lesbians, and so on. A whole bunch of crazy ideas and one of the most inventive low-budget films I’ve ever seen! Highly recommended!”

Well… it’s clear what kind of films the author of this incredible philosophical, sociological, and psychological text loves!

Seriously?
Abraham Lincoln – Vampire Hunter hunting vampires?
Will there be any sequels?
Theodore Roosevelt against werewolves,
Ronald Reagan against the Army of Shadows,
Bill Clinton versus the White House strippers,
Nixon against the Undead of Vietnam?

Why choose this president as your hero?
Why did they want to change history or make us believe that the real story is false?

Was it all a bit of a rant?
That’s the impression it gives. However, the film takes itself quite seriously, and that’s a shame.
There’s a lot of length. That’s not a problem in itself.
The main character doesn’t really have any charisma. Maybe that’s on purpose!
However, the actor, Benjamin Walker, is relatively likable and even reminded me of Liam Neeson.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is still perfect. She’s an excellent actress, but we don’t see that much of her. She can’t save this film, but I have to admit: she’s the reason I watched it twice!

Tim Burton produced this film? Amazing! Here, apparently, he’s the one presenting this film by Timur Bekmambetov (who already made Wanted in 2008, which I didn’t like any more than this one)!
To think that there was a time when this gentleman did nothing but incredible things.
Has he given up on those days for good?
The special effects are well done, but too over-exaggerated (as in the scene with the horses and the train). The monsters are scary enough.
But in the end, few scenes really stick in my mind, and I came away rather disappointed, even though there are some good messages. It’s true that, indirectly, you can never perfectly transcribe a real story. And here, I don’t think there’s much that’s real, if anything at all, apart from some of the rhetoric about freedom and slavery.
In short! It’s a bit thin.
It could have been much better.

The last half-hour really got the better of the film. It’s a big show that you don’t believe in for a second, and I’m tired of it. There are a lot of things that don’t add up. It’s getting to be a lot!
Joseph Mawle is a British actor with a very special and distinctive face. He gained international recognition thanks to Game of Thrones, in which he played one of the members of the Stark family. Sadly, I’m not sure his film choices have been beneficial to his career, especially when you think of the very bad The Hallow (2015).

In fact, there are quite a few actors here whose charisma I adore: Rufus Sewell (Old, The Father, Judy, A_Knight’s_Tale), Dominic Cooper (Dracula Untold, Tamara Drewe, The Duchess, Miss_You_Already), and Robin McLeavy (Backtrack). There’s even Anthony Mackie here!
In any case, I won’t be watching this film a third time. I’ve had enough!

I really appreciated this comment from a friend: “Abraham the hunter?
Seen recently, I thought it was pretty cool. You really don’t have to try to understand what’s really going on; otherwise, everyone gets angry. It’s not every day you see a president of the United States waging war against vampires too. For my part, I loved it.”