The most important thing about enjoyably trashy, title-says-it-all action films such as Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is to keep everything moving so fast and on such a huge scale that nobody will care too much about how monumentally silly it all is.
- Jim Schembri, 3AW, August 05, 2012
Sounds like it was pitched at the tail-end of a particularly cynical, three-day, coke-fuelled marketing strategy session in between Transformers with Boobs and The Voice: The Movie...
- Simon Miraudo, Quickflix, July 30, 2012
What makes Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter so enjoyable is the extent it abandons so many established rules not just in terms of history and genre, but also physics.
- Thomas Caldwell, Cinema Autopsy, July 29, 2012
There is just not enough substance to it. Lots of graphic, slo-mo blood spills, big battle scenes and gunfire, axe-wielding Abe chopping down the vampires, albeit often in a blur of action we can't really relish
- Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile, July 29, 2012
Whatever clever literary concepts screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith has adapted from his novel, has been well and truly stomped
- Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile, July 29, 2012
The violence quickly becomes numbing, and Benjamin Walker plays Lincoln without the sense of irony needed to keep the historical and supernatural sides of the story consistently entertaining.
- Bruce Diones, New Yorker, July 02, 2012
The movie plays safe by cutting every theme down the middle - a swing that's effective when splitting wood or vampire skulls, but dull when applied to filmmaking.
- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly, June 24, 2012
Of course it's ridiculous and tasteless and grotesque. It's ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER.
- Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com, June 22, 2012
The disconnect between intention and final product is a head scratcher.
- Ricardo Baca, Denver Post, June 22, 2012
Bekmambetov doesn't expect us to take the premise seriously, exactly. But he doesn't seem to want us to laugh at it, either.
- Eric D. Snider, Film.com, June 22, 2012
Bekmambetov ... stages hilarious, imaginative, almost free-form action sequences like nobody in the business.
- Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com, June 22, 2012
A B movie treated like an A movie that mostly ends up being a zzzzzzzzzz movie.
- Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger, June 22, 2012
This film should be campy fun, but in Bekmambetov's unsteady hands, it feels laboured and unsatisfying.
- Bruce Demara, Toronto Star, June 22, 2012
The grave tone makes it stiff and leaden, the digi-saturated look is a turn-off. Damnable and disordered.
- Dan Jolin, Empire Magazine, June 22, 2012
The trouble with the so-called high-concept film is that too often the concept is the best thing about it and the actual movie essentially a series of rather rote, progressively more tiresome variations on its premise.
- James Adams, Globe and Mail, June 22, 2012
Not just a letdown but an absolute disaster.
- Rafer Guzman, Newsday, June 22, 2012
What next, "George Washington Werewolf"? Laugh not, history profs.
- Tom Long, Detroit News, June 22, 2012
Don't let the stupid title dissuade you from seeing "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter." Let the stupid plot, the stupid history, the stupid action scenes, the stupid trivializing of slavery . . .
- Kyle Smith, New York Post, June 22, 2012
For the most part Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is loud, fast and crunchy - and I suspect it's going to slay audiences at the box office.
- David Sexton, This is London, June 22, 2012
Both terribly silly and a lot of fun.
- Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, June 22, 2012
