Title Analysis By Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day Louis, Sally Field, Kathleen Kennedy TROY SAYS:
Has some Respectable elements 6.7
"Pretty, but TALKY beyond all possible belief. Moves at the glacial pace of a history tome. You could read the script faster than you could watch the movie. Takes nearly 2.5 hours to span 4 month's of Lincoln's life, wasting most of that time with a political hearing, the outcome of which everybody already knows: (the 13th Amendment says the bad Southern racists don't get to keep slaves anymore.) Who knows what audience the film was made for, as you can't play such foul language in a classroom, and the film is too talky to be entertainment. Supports, with little critical question, the dubious State Public School propaganda positing that the Civil War was necessary, and that slavery was abolished by the war and the amendment. In fact, the Civil War was designed to deliver power and money to International banker-masters, thus creating a state of universal, perpetual American slavery. African-Americans persist in de-facto slavery to this day, and the whites have joined them. This perpetual slavery stems largely from the Civil War debt, which has not been repaid to this day, and will never be repaid, because the United States can't even pay the interest on its war-debt. The real dictator Lincoln was the greatest mass-murderer in America's long parade of Presidential mass-murderers. The 13th amendment is rendered null and void by the United States simply declaring anything it wishes to be a crime, and then forcing millions of black boys to spend their lives in involuntary servitude, stamping out license plates in prison, as punishment for the "crime" of, say, walking around with a hemp bud, or downloading an mp3. We are left still waiting for the movie that ties together the interesting events of Lincoln's life into a holistic, revealing picture. " GENIE SAYS:
Good 6.8
βPretty sets, great acting in some cases, especially Daniel Day Louis. Marred by bits of extremely strong and totally unnecessary, (I mean inexplicable by ANY rational excuse,) profanity. Almost no action, 90%+ dialog.β
