Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Reviews
Cinema Crazed
Succeeds in being an entertaining, exciting, and chilling genre hybrid
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| Original Score: 3/4
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
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
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 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
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
Movies.com
A funny, scary, and cheer-worthy adventure that somehow manages to make the 16th President of the United States a bad-ass action hero.
Examiner.com
Other than not knowing what's going on when the action gets heavy, "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is fairly outstanding. It's downright ridiculous at times and extremely outrageous to its core, but is unbelievably entertaining from beginning to end.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
A lot better than I'd expected. In itself, that's not saying all that much since I was prepared for it to be pretty bad.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Illinois Times
Lincoln a Bloody Alternate History Lesson
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| Original Score: 3.0/4.0
TheMovieReport.com
If there's anything more radical and outrageous than the very title and concept, it's how focused and committed director Timur Bekmambetov and writer Seth Grahame-Smith are to its execution.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Atlantic City Weekly
The movie works because the story outside the vampire zone sweet spot is played straight and with some heart.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Movie Talk
Rip up the history books and don your 3D glasses for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, a stupefyingly silly but exuberantly entertaining horror fantasy.
TheDivaReview.com
With its outrageous premise of turning Honest Abe into a slayer of the undead, one would expect to see the president snuffing out vamps in astounding ways. To this end, and as pure, thrill-ride entertainment, the movie certainly delivers.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Killer Movie Reviews
If you are going to re-imagine the 16th president of the United States as a vampire hunter, go big or go home. "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter" has chosen the former.
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| Original Score: 3/5
MediaMikes
As played by Walker, Abe is a 19th Century Bruce Wayne or Clark Kent, his mild demeanor a mask for a man of strength.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top CriticOf course it's ridiculous and tasteless and grotesque. It's ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
PopMatters
It's crazier than an antebellum bedbug, but Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter is one of Summer 2012's definite sleepers.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Mania.com
The summer's most fantastic guilty pleasure.
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| Original Score: B+
