Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Reviews
Las Vegas CityLife
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Concrete Playground
If you thought the American Civil War was about ending slavery, you're in for a rude surprise.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Cinema Crazed
Succeeds in being an entertaining, exciting, and chilling genre hybrid
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| Original Score: 3/4
ScreenRant
As a tongue-in-cheek action mashup, Grahame-Smith and Bekmambetov have, for the most part, delivered an entertaining (albeit campy) historical retelling.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
The Aristocrat
A rancid hot pot of over-caffeinated action, choppy editing, self-importance and retarded scripting, Lincoln is the worst blockbuster in recent memory...
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| Original Score: 1/5
Shotgun Critic
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.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Examiner.com
What you get with "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is an interesting concept that has a number of structural problems.
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| Original Score: 2/4
We Got This Covered
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/10
FoxNews.com
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.
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| Original Score: 3/10
The National
completely ludicrous but fun.
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| Original Score: 3/5
CraveOnline
While the film eventually feels a little exhausting, particularly in the protracted but impressive finale, it works as well as this material possibly could.
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| Original Score: 8.5/10
Crikey
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.
The Mercury
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.
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| Original Score: 1/5
3AW
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Popcorn Junkie
Uses cues from the life of the former US President and builds an unwieldy supernatural story on top of it.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
The Standard
AL:VH is easy to dismiss and equally as easy to forget, but it does what it does well.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Quickflix
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...
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| Original Score: 2/5
Cinema Autopsy
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Urban Cinefile
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
Urban Cinefile
Whatever clever literary concepts screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith has adapted from his novel, has been well and truly stomped
