Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)

This movie is amazingly bad.  Freakishly bad. Movies this bad make me wonder what the actors think when they read the script. Is it hard to tell that a script is pure crap? Or perhaps the movies change so much while being shot or edited that it's kind of a crap shoot?  Or perhaps an actor just wants to make a movie - any movie - and start getting name recognition, or get paid. 

The dialog here is putrid. There is a ridiculous and portentous voice-over / narration thing (by Lincoln) that should have been scrapped. The special effects are not good. Rufus Sewell (whom I like, but not here) is a big bad vampire, and there are certain shots where he looks like Svengoolie of late night TV. I am pretty sure the sets and costumes, including rectangular metal sunglasses, were borrowed from the Sherlock Holmes movies.  At one point one of the female vampires leaves her hoop skirts behind and starts running around in leggings. Lycra. No joke.

The action is BAD. There is a scene with a horse stampede, and a vampire picks up a horse by its leg and swings it at Lincoln. Swings a horse (and I thought the scene where Bourne fought a wolf was stupid). Don't worry - Lincoln was OK.  Not a scratch on him. Presidents have super-powers, don't you know.

I could go on. If this were a real movie, I would say they needed to limit the time period, for example. But this movie is crap crap crap, so let's not have serious discussion.  Just pass.