Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter:
Review
Year: 2012
Stars: Benjamin
Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Cooper
Directed:
Timur Bekmambetov
Running Time:
105 mins
Abraham Lincoln the 16th president of the
United States foils vampire’s plans to take over the US. Directed by Timur
Bekmambetov (Wanted, Day/Night Watch) on a cool budget of $69,000,000, also
staring Benjamin Walker (Nothing amazing other than Flags of our Fathers and
Coach) as the Presidential vampire slayer.
So at the beginning of the film we join 9 year old
Lincoln who sticking up for his black friend gets his folks into trouble. Due
to this he then witness his mother being fed on by vampire Jack Barts (Marton
Csokas, many films such as aeon flux, Alice in Wonderland, xXx) she then dies
by the morning with Lincoln beside her.
9 years later after his father has also passed Abe tries
to kill Barts with a flintlock, thinking he’s done the deed he throws the gun
away and turns to see the body has vanished. Attacked by Barts he is saved by a
person whom he met in a bar earlier.
Up to this point in the film I was pretty engrossed with
some good story and acting and some well developing characters, even being
British myself we all know about Abe Lincoln’s story so it was interesting to
watch this take on his earlier life.
This I’m sure comes from a spate of books that were
released within the past few years such as sense and sensibility and sea
monsters, pride and prejudice and zombies taking a classic tale and putting a
cool little horror spin on it.
Out of the three I have read above this one definitely
works as a film more than the others it’s believable that Abe who was real at
least compared to the others could have led this life prior to becoming a
president.
He was saved by Henry Sturges (Dominic Cooper, Devils
double and captain America) who explains that vampires are quite real and are
around everywhere. Abe unsuccessfully asks for his assistance in killing the
vampires but Henry does after he’s agreed to some terms train him as a hunter.
Then we get a montage! Yes training and Abe doing some
unbelievable feats of human strength and agility in the name of killing
vampires.
Heading out into the world Abe almost instantly breaks
some of the rules that a hunter should live by falling in love etc. This movie
was a good one it ends as you all know Abe’s story ends. So it’s hard for me
not to spoil the ending like I do at THN.
What I will do is not spoil the movie further for you
suffice to say it was a good all round fun fest think matrix 1800’s style with
some typical elements. IT stays pretty true to the book as close as you can
come and a reasonable for a mainstream movie. This film garners a 4 out of 5
stars and a recommendation to watch from me. All I can say is I can’t wait for Queen
Victoria Demon hunter peace out THN.
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