Written
November 27, 2012
Hard to say
As might be expected, the cinematography is pretty, the costumes and set design - gorgeous, the acting (for the most part) is superb, but in the end, the film does Not flow very well. Honestly, I appreciate the narrative that Spielberg and company were attempting to give, but it doesn't come out in the wash. Much of this can be attributed to editing. There are quite few scenes that simply should have been left on the cutting room floor; not for content but for the sake of the movie as a whole. One almost gets the sense that Spielberg clung to, at all costs, certain episodes of the era, or maybe just morsels from an earlier screenplay, even if they ultimately interfered with the story arc in the final edit. Secondly, Lincoln is very much a dialogue-heavy film, which is fine and something that can and has worked well in other projects, but it seems this one passes up several opportunities to neutralize the chatter with some silence, or scenery, or action.
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13
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