Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (R)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
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Time Out says
Tue Jun 19 2012
So it seems our 16th President—that’d be Abraham Fucking Lincoln (Walker), as one of his antagonists robustly addresses him—wasn’t only a leader and emancipator. He was also an ax-wielding hunter of literally bloodsucking Southerners who mired our country in civil war. This ludicrous CGI extravaganza, based on the comic horror novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, can stand proudly beside the best-worst of Ed Wood and Uwe Boll. Come for a stampeding-horse action sequence that might make John Ford rise from his grave in fury; stay for the moment when doting wife Mary Todd (Winstead) implores her hubby to hurry up or they’ll be late for the theater. And otherwise distract yourself with the film’s consistently flabbergasting attempts to turn Honest Abe into the 19th-century Neo. Four score and seven years a-whoa!
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Release details
Rated:
R
US release:
Fri Jun 22 2012
Duration:
105 mins
Cast and crew
Cast:
Rufus Sewell, Benjamin Walker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Dominic Cooper
Director:
Timur Bekmambetov
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