Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)

All Critics (181) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (63) | Rotten (117)

The violence quickly becomes numbing, and Benjamin Walker plays Lincoln without the sense of irony needed to keep the historical and supernatural sides of the story consistently entertaining.

July 2, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

Bruce Diones

New Yorker

Top Critic

The movie plays safe by cutting every theme down the middle - a swing that's effective when splitting wood or vampire skulls, but dull when applied to filmmaking.

June 24, 2012 Full Review | Comments (6)

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

Of course it's ridiculous and tasteless and grotesque. It's ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER.

June 22, 2012 Full Review | Comments (41)

Richard Roeper

Richard Roeper.com

Top Critic

The disconnect between intention and final product is a head scratcher.

June 22, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

Ricardo Baca

Denver Post

Top Critic

Bekmambetov doesn't expect us to take the premise seriously, exactly. But he doesn't seem to want us to laugh at it, either.

June 22, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

Eric D. Snider

Film.com

Top Critic

Bekmambetov ... stages hilarious, imaginative, almost free-form action sequences like nobody in the business.

June 22, 2012 Full Review

Andrew O'Hehir

Salon.com

Top Critic

Rather than create an innovative style to complement the horror-history hybrid, he employs superhero clichés and hackneyed action scenes that only help distract from the ineffectiveness of the film's scant 3-D effects.

April 21, 2013 Full Review

Matt Kelemen

Las Vegas CityLife

If you thought the American Civil War was about ending slavery, you're in for a rude surprise.

March 4, 2013 Full Review

Tom Glasson

Concrete Playground

Succeeds in being an entertaining, exciting, and chilling genre hybrid

February 12, 2013 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

As a tongue-in-cheek action mashup, Grahame-Smith and Bekmambetov have, for the most part, delivered an entertaining (albeit campy) historical retelling.

September 27, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kendrick

ScreenRant

A rancid hot pot of over-caffeinated action, choppy editing, self-importance and retarded scripting, Lincoln is the worst blockbuster in recent memory...

September 27, 2012 Full Review

Adam Ross

The Aristocrat

Frankly, if it gets kids talking about history again, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter succeeds where a lot of other films stumble-and even if it's kind of a lame duck, there's still a lot of dignity in that.

September 26, 2012 Full Review

Patrick Kolan

Shotgun Critic

What you get with "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is an interesting concept that has a number of structural problems.

September 14, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter doesn't even come close to living up to the fun, silly nature of its premise. The film is a dull, humorless, ugly-looking slog.

September 14, 2012 Full Review

Jonathan Lack

We Got This Covered

With the most preposterous of plots, one would expect "Lincoln" to be funny, but it's not. It takes itself as seriously as a disease, and therein lies the biggest problem with this film.

September 10, 2012 Full Review

Justin Craig

FoxNews.com

completely ludicrous but fun.

August 30, 2012 Full Review

James Luxford

The National

While the film eventually feels a little exhausting, particularly in the protracted but impressive finale, it works as well as this material possibly could.

August 22, 2012 Full Review

William Bibbiani

CraveOnline

If The Matrix turned the humble spoon into an enduring visual motif for the cinematic dinner table, Vampire Hunter attempts to do the same with a fork.

August 5, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Luke Buckmaster

Crikey

Bekmambetov knows his way around supernatural movies very well but he just doesn't seem to have the sense of humour needed for this one.

August 5, 2012 Full Review

Tim Martain

The Mercury

The most important thing about enjoyably trashy, title-says-it-all action films such as Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is to keep everything moving so fast and on such a huge scale that nobody will care too much about how monumentally silly it all is.

August 5, 2012 Full Review

Jim Schembri

3AW

Uses cues from the life of the former US President and builds an unwieldy supernatural story on top of it.

August 3, 2012 Full Review

Cameron Williams

The Popcorn Junkie

AL:VH is easy to dismiss and equally as easy to forget, but it does what it does well.

August 3, 2012 Full Review

Matt Neal

The Standard

Sounds like it was pitched at the tail-end of a particularly cynical, three-day, coke-fuelled marketing strategy session in between Transformers with Boobs and The Voice: The Movie...

July 30, 2012 Full Review

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

What makes Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter so enjoyable is the extent it abandons so many established rules not just in terms of history and genre, but also physics.

July 29, 2012 Full Review

Thomas Caldwell

Cinema Autopsy

There is just not enough substance to it. Lots of graphic, slo-mo blood spills, big battle scenes and gunfire, axe-wielding Abe chopping down the vampires, albeit often in a blur of action we can't really relish

July 29, 2012 Full Review

Andrew L. Urban

Urban Cinefile

Whatever clever literary concepts screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith has adapted from his novel, has been well and truly stomped

July 29, 2012 Full Review

Louise Keller

Urban Cinefile

• 1. Henry Sturges: If the silver wasn't on the train, then where is it?
  2. Will Johnson: This isn't the only railway. [referring to the Under Ground Railway]
  – Submitted by Shandelle L (3 months ago)
• 1. Henry Sturges: There is darkness EVERYWHERE! You are not the only one who has lost everything!
  – Submitted by Carlo Roy R (5 months ago)
• 1. Henry Sturges: If vengeance is all you seek, you will never be able to save mankind. Fight this war with me, not for one man but for the whole world... Mr President.
  – Submitted by Carlo Roy R (5 months ago)
• 1. Abraham Lincoln: Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
  – Submitted by Carlo Roy R (5 months ago)
• 1. Abraham Lincoln: I'm sorry, Mary. I'm sorry I've kept you in the dark all these years... I need you, Mary.
  2. Mary Todd Lincoln: I've waited a long time to hear you say those words.
  – Submitted by Carlo Roy R (5 months ago)
• 1. Mary Todd Lincoln: Well, I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard. My father used to say: plant your feet and stand firm. The only question is where to put your feet.
  – Submitted by Carlo Roy R (5 months ago)