Movie of the Week: Lincoln

[jacey]

This is a period of American history which I know very little about, so it was interesting to get the microscopic detail of the last couple of months of Abe Lincoln's life, the struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment ending slavery, and the conclusion of the American Civil War. One review I read described this as a film about a lot of men sitting in rooms and talking, and this it surely is, but it works brilliantly. It mixes the personal and the political in just the right amounts.

The cast is stellar. Daniel Day Lewis is a true chameleon of an actor who doesn't so much play Lincoln, he becomes him. There are superb supporting roles from Tommy Lee Jones (in a deliberately terrible wig), Sally Field as Mrs Lincoln and a totally unrecognisable James Spader.

It's a long movie. You may wish to take a cushion if your cinema has seats that are getting somewhat tired and prolapsed, like Cineworld Wakefield. Just sayin...