Watched "Lincoln" over the weekend. I had been wanting to see it, but just had not gotten around to it.


Prior to watching the movie, I was not sure whether it would be a bio-pic or if it would focus only on his presidency. Similar films tend to conduct flashback scenes dating as far back as to the character's youth ("Nixon" comes to mind). But "Lincoln" was essentially centered around a 4-6 months period in 1865 when the Civil War was ending and Lincoln's fight to have the 13th Amendment passed.

There were two actors from "Boardwalk Empire" who I recognized: Michael Stuhlbarg (Arnold Rothstein) and Peter McRobbie (FBI Supervisor) in "Lincoln." Tommy Lee Jones, one of the better actors of the past 25 years, gave a great performance of Thaddeus Stevens.

It wasn't the greatest movie I have ever seen, but it was a well-done film about President Lincoln's struggles to convince Dems & Republicans that the country needed to pass the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery.

3.5 out of 5 stars