Abraham Lincoln : Vampire hunter

Year of release : 2012

 

Run time : 1h41min

 

Genre : Action / Horror

 

Cast : Benjamin Walker, Anthony Mackie, Rufus Sewell, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Dominic Cooper

 

 

The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith,published in 2010.

 

The year is 1818,and Abraham Lincoln lives in Indiana with his family. Abraham is trying to help his friend,whose family is about to be taken into slavery under false pretenses.

Helping Abraham,who was whipped ,his father is fired,and asked to pay his debt. Refusing to do so, his employer pays them a visit late at night, as Abraham sees him sucking his mother's blood, who gets sick and dies.

His father makes Abraham promise he won't go after his employers.

 

9 years later his father dies, and Abraham decides to go after the man who killed his mother.

He confronts him,and manages to shoot him in the eye,but she doesn't die! He comes back as a vampire!

Luckily for him, a man comes and fights the vampire.

 

Abraham wakes up not knowing where he is,and finds out he's in his rescuer's house.

He asks him to teach him how to fight vampires,and after agreeing to fight like a true hunter,who's not guided by vengeance, the man teaches him that true power is in the mind.

 

We find out these vampires can eat and drink, can walk in the sunlight, can become invisible, and are very keen on having slav3s,building an empire in the South. They can only be killed with silver (and,can not be killed by another vampire).

 

Abraham chooses his weapon, an axe. He becomes one with the axe,killing many vampires,waiting for Henry (his teacher) to give him the go to kill Barts (the vampire who killed his mother).

 

Although,told by Henry not to have any friends, or loved ones, he falls in love with Mary Todd,and befriends the man who offers him shelter and a job. Also,his childhood friend crosses his path,and they reunite.

 

At the same time, we see him rising to fame in politics,as he wants to change the mentality of the time.

 

I personally don't enjoy this genre of biographical action horror mashup ,as it's fiction on top of real events,like the romance fan fiction novels. In fact,this is what I'm gonna call this!

 

The movie is directed by Timur Bekmambetov,who directed the movie Wanted,with Angelina Jolie.

 

The visual effects were good,they reminded me of the ones in the Russian movies directed by Timur, Nightwatch and Daywatch.

There was this ridiculous scene in which they were running on top of horses. I understand the vampire doing that,but the human (not to mention, the vampire throws a horse at him,which hits him,and falls on top of him! that should have k!lled him; there's another scene like that in the beginning with him obliterating the tree)..but it looked good,it reminded me of the Matrix.

 

The actors were great. I'm always impressed by Jimmi Simpson and Rufus Sewell. Benjamin Walker and Marton Csokas were the best.

 

The soundtrack was not that impressive, considering how great the trailer music was.

 

I'm gonna give the movie a 3 stars for the amazing visual effects, fight scenes and the acting.

 

The movie is for rent / sale on Amazon, Apple Tv, Google, YouTube.

 

Rating : Worth a watch !