Lincoln(2012)- User Reviews

The president is working very hard to push thru 13th Amendment to abolish slavery & a peaceful end to the Civil War. Very witty conversations & bantering among the politicians. Daniel Lewis, Sally Fields and Tommy Jones are outstanding! Our teenager …more»

Daniel Day-Lewis was remarkable another Oscar worthy performance. The movie was tremendous ,honest and displayed the very difficult travails of the politics of that day .A side note our politicians could use a dose of this today.Extremely well done and …more»

My husband and I both found this movie long and boring. We both fell asleep! The acting of Daniel Day Lewis was wonderful as he portrayed Lincoln very well. The previews calls the movie intense and action packed. It was not intense or action packed. …more»

This is a "must see" movie because it focuses on the basic question of how we deal with each other and it shines a spot light into our not-to-far distant history. Today, 12/28/12, congress must act, take a stand, and give their 'Yeas or …more»

Great Acting..see it in the theater. Dan will win many Awards for this one.....actually many people in this

Great Acting..see it in the theater. Dan will win many Awards for this one.....actually many people in this movie will win awards.
Great Acting..see …more»

The acting was award worthy, the story was historic, but I found the movie less than entertaining at times. Though not what I would consider a boring film, it does at times bore. Lewis gives another stellar performance worthy of the accolades he has …more»

To start; if you are looking for a war movie depicting great battles and generals, look somewhere else. This is a movie about Lincoln and his conviction to get the 13th Amendment passed in a Congress divided. Sound familiar? He has to battle the Democrats …more»

Historically very accurate and very well acted especially by Daniel Day-Lewis, David Strathairn, andSally Fields.
If you want amore thorough Civil War history, however, I recommend "The Civil War" miniseries by Ken Burns or any of Bruce Catton's …more»

I was not very impressed with this film at all. There just wasn't enough variety in the scenes to warrant my full attention. (While I was watching this movie, I was thinking of what I had to do AFTER the movie was over. That's a bad sign!) I also …more»

The whole movie was about the 13 th amendment and freeing the slaves. There were no battles , just talk about freeing the slaves. There was a 60 second battle scene in the begginning that I missed because I was in the bathroom. Other then this you didn't …more»