Overhyped as far as I'm concerned. I read so many suggestions that this was somehow an education worthy historical accounting of Lincoln's life leading up to the abolition of slavery. Granted, when I end my time on this mortal coil I'd also like to be remembered so fondly, however Lincoln's life from what little historical record or accounting I've come across was far darker and more depressing than this rose coloured glass tinted version. Almost no reference to the economics of slavery and the role they played in creating an environment where 'something had to be done' about the 'injustice'. Lincoln was painted as a model of reason, sanity and near sainthood which in itself was a tremendous stretch from reality as I imagine or understand it. I like my heroes a little more honest and flawed in their portrayals and certainly not nearly so sanitised and airbrushed. Daniel Day Lewis did a wonderful job as a convincing character, albeit one as fictional as Frodo Baggins. Others suggested it and it seemed to me also that Tommy Lee mailed this one in. Sally field was miscast insofar as age goes, and overacted to the point that at any time I imagined it possible Charlton Heston may pop up on stage and join her in an epic Shakespearian dialogue. I had no idea everyone was so eloquent in those days that virtually every conversation, even simply between two people in a room included an epic diatribe worthy of the the bard on a down day anyway. Still, it wasn't terrible, only I wouldn't actually recommend it to a friend.
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