Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Movie Reviews

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is such a smashing title it’s too bad someone had to spoil things by making a movie to go with it. Then again, a big-screen version of Seth Grahame-Smith’s comic novel was doubtless inevitable, given the delectable absurdity of the 16th president of the United States going all Buffy on a vamp army, splitting heads like rails. That sounds funny, and for a while it plays like head-exploding gangbusters on screen, particularly when the young

Abraham Lincoln would have surely had a good laugh after seeing this one. You, on the other hand, will surely have fun while watching the movie. And that's because this wicked period tale keeps your mind busy all throughout -- you find it really hard to distinguish fact from fiction. Of course, those of you who have actually read Seth Grahame-Smith's fiction novel by the same name have all your facts in place. So much so, expectations (of those into the literally side) are a bit high

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is adapted from the 2010 book of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith, who wrote the screenplay. The film follows Abraham Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) from childhood to his ascent to an embattled presidency, throwing light — as the title promises-upon his hidden career as a hunter of supernatural blood-sucking beings. With a humble beginning as the son of a plantation worker, a young Lincoln loses his mother due to cruel slave owner

It is tempting to imagine one of America’s greatest presidents as a caped superhero of sorts. It must also be satisfying to conceive the American Southerners fighting to retain their slaves as blood-suckers. It must be especially gratifying to combine the two in a film that is only quasi-history but a bona fide thriller, where you will be laughing at the famous Lincoln beard that Benjamin Walker comes to sport but not mind too much that the 50-plus president survives

It is tempting to imagine one of America’s greatest presidents as a caped superhero of sorts. It must also be satisfying to conceive the American Southerners fighting to retain their slaves as blood-suckers. It must be especially gratifying to combine the two in a film that is only quasi-history but a bona fide thriller, where you will be laughing at the famous Lincoln beard that Benjamin Walker comes to sport but not mind too much that the 50-plus president survives

Mixing real historical facts with a preposterous make-believe premise, Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov delivers a silly biopic-meets-horror movie in the curiously titled Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The film stars Benjamin Walker as the young 16th President of America who swears vengeance on all vampires when one dastardly bloodsucker kills his mum. Trained and tutored in the art of vampire-assassination by a mysterious stranger

In a world where every single moviegoer complains about how 3D makes movies look dim and obscure, director Timur Bekmambetov and his producers at Fox dole out a movie set almost entirely in the dark. Perhaps this was a deliberate ploy to hide the lack of good content that writer Seth Grahame-Smith (Dark Shadows) churned out. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a crushing disappointment, not just because it doesn’t live up to its crazy title

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is the kind of supernatural bunkum that makes 'Van Helsing' try-before-you-die fare. Not only does the flick make blood-sucking immortals seem less desirable than soulless zombies, it's also such a gross distortion of American history that Yank-hating groups (especially in the Middle East) are bound to host mass public screenings to laugh at how ridiculous American cinematic re-tellings of the Civil War can get