Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

A figure like President Abraham Lincoln and the historical importance that he holds today, given the extraordinary times of that era, and his abrupt assasination would/could lend itself understandably well to taking fictional liberties.   But this movie has taken that quite too far.  Even if you can digest the notion of Lincoln being a vampire hunter, this movie certainly doesn't mesh the now well established genre of vampires/vampire hunters very well.  There are moments when it tries way too hard, and the filmmakers can't seem to be able to make up their mind.  It's kind of embarassing to me personally and seems to be saying a lot about this country and it's regards or disregard for it's own history.  I must admit that the filmmakers did do their research in applying many of the historically details to his life and rather deftly did insert a fictional vampire narrative that is almost plausible at least in concept and pre-production idea.  But again, the execution of  this seems to have turned out more comical and ill-meshed at times during the film.   I would argue that it needed to be more steady in it's tone, especially given the weight of this historical figure and the gravity of isssues like war and slavery.  From the Twilight to the Underworld series, it seems that everyone thinks that they can make a vampire movie now.  Don't get me wrong.  I didn't want to dislike it.  Part of me even thought it was kind of a cool idea, because Lincoln has always been to me kind of a cool and mysteriously aloof figure that was only really appreciated years and decades later.  I think that where the filmmakers really went wrong was in the over the top action and fighting scenes.  I mean they portray Lincoln as suddenly being able to do all this super martial art, gravity defying shit that you see in every other action film now, even after he becomes the President.  It's cool sure, especially to a young attention deficit, action loving audience who increasingly doesn't know or revere shit about history.  But turning Lincoln into a fuckin' Bruce Lee who killed vampires to win the Civil War seems to favor denigrating with action over educating with mysterious intrigue.