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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter(2012)
105 min - Action | Fantasy | Horror -
22 June 2012 (USA)
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter explores the secret life of our greatest
president, and the untold story that shaped our nation. Visionary
filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (director of Wanted) bring a
fresh and visceral voice to the bloodthirsty lore of the vampire,
imagining Lincoln as history's greatest hunter of the undead.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a one-note joke played for
two hours by a bugler with asthma who lost his hearing during the
opening cannon fire of the Battle of Gettysburg. Its central
conceit—that Honest Abe loses his mother not to milk sickness but
through the bite of a vampire, thus transforming him into the
Slayer-in-Chief—sounds like it might have made for one of the more
diverting coked-out sketches Saturday Night Live used to toss
out between commercials during the days when Lorne Michaels wasn’t
afraid of the NBC censors. Stretching it out to a full-length novel,
as Seth Grahame-Smith did in 2010, in the wake of the massive success of
his Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, always seemed like a far more dubious proposition. Now Grahame-Smith has enlisted the directorial eye of Day Watch’s Timur Bekmambetov to adapt his mashup into a feature film, and the result makes Zack Snyder’s 300 look like a Kurosawan masterpiece and Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor a measured documentary. The blame for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’s failure must be
laid at the feet of both Bekmambetov and Grahame-Smith equally.
Grahame-Smith’s screenplay lacks the structure of his successful book—a
not-always-successful marriage of Ken Burns, Henry James, Bram Stoker,
and, in its more lucid passages, Anne Rice—which took the form of
Lincoln’s secret diaries detailing his personal journey into a Val
Helsing–esque Abolitionist. Instead, his story episodically thrusts
young Abraham (Benjamin Walker) from the backwaters of a port town where
he meets his vampire-slaying mentor Henry Sturges (Dominic Cooper) to
his episodic slaughter of undead one-percenters in New Salem—all the
while studying law and working in the store of his friend Joshua Speed
(Jimmi Simpson). In that time he meets and courts Mary Todd (Mary
Elizabeth Winstead) and becomes reacquainted with freed slave William
Johnson (Anthony Mackie) before learning that ur-vampire Adam (Rufus
Sewell) has plans to usurp the power of the recently-formed United
States of America, transferring it to his bloodsucking counterparts.
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