“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” sounds like a really silly movie and it should be, however I felt like this film couldn’t have been much further from what I wanted to be seeing. It seems like the filmmakers were just making a normal Lincoln bio-pic when they realised Steven Spielberg’s far superior “Lincoln” was going to be coming out so they threw in the vampires as an afterthought.

The film tells the story of President Abraham Lincoln (Benjamin Walker “Flags Of Our Fathers”), mainly during his time as a young man as he fights off vampires at night. During the day we get details about a more real Lincoln; how accurate is this? I’m not sure because I’m not an American and thus have only basic knowledge of the man.

Benjamin Walker plays an Abraham Lincoln that for the most part looks nothing like the traditional Abraham Lincoln we all know and this leads to it not being at all amusing when he slices up monsters, this slaughtering I mention is done without any form of comedy. I have to praise Benjamin Walker in the sense like he’s acting as a more realistic Lincoln than the kind we deserve in a film about the President of the U.S.A. fighting the undead. The vampires are uninspired and seem a lot more like zombies at times.

The last third may pick things up slightly but by then you’ll be so undeniably bored that you just won’t care. It doesn’t need all the fancy effects that are included; all I wanted was a cleverly daft picture, which did the idea created in one’s head via the title, done justice. I hope this film doesn’t make other filmmakers shy away from movies with ridiculous concepts such, maybe we could have “Nelson Mandela: The Mad Scientist”, “Winston Churchill Goes to Mars” or better yet “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” made properly.