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50Odd and not entirely uninteresting little docudrama.
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20The movie’s gimmick is having the actors visually superimposed over sets created from actual Civil War photographs. But this collage effect, while striving for truthfulness, comes off like a View-Master version of a tale already told.
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40The whole affair has an artificial look reminiscent of a community theater production on a cardboard set. The vintage images don’t add enough to make up for the visual distraction. The story, though, is of moderate interest.
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50A curiosity telling the President's story through the eyes of longtime friend Ward Hill Lamon, it's of interest only to serious history-hounds and techies curious about its unusual green-screen production.
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38Under even the best of circumstances, Saving Lincoln would have to inevitably face the scrutiny of potential redundancy.
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0At its worst, the film is a panoply of ersatz camera placement and terrible scene blocking, actors having no clue how to interact with their surroundings as they rifle through dialogue that stands as a series of historical checkpoints rather than a cohesive story.
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0The tragic ending the material demands precludes viewers from complaining that the movie is the most unpleasant thing that could happen in a theater.
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Feb 19, 201320Saving Lincoln feels amateurish, strange and beyond redress.
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Feb 13, 201340The script, while largely historically accurate, is undermined by stilted dialogue, and the picture is laced with ill-fitting parts that wind up literally all over the matte. The result is a film better suited to classrooms than theaters.
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