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Manohla Dargis, New York Times: "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is such a smashing title it's too bad someone had to spoil things by making a movie to go with it. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: The historical epic and the monster movie run on parallel tracks, occasionally colliding but never forming a coherent whole. Read more
Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: It constitutes a moral sin, if not an outright moral crime, and commits a grave insult against history. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Someone forgot to tell the filmmakers ... that the movie was supposed to be fun. Or at least smart. Read more
Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: Walker's face is soft, bland, unremarkable. His acting, likewise. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: The filmmakers mistakenly think nothing is silly if it's done with a grim enough facial expression. Read more
Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic: The problem with movies based on a single joke is that a single joke is rarely funny enough to sustain the running time of a feature-length film. And with "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," the whole joke is in the title. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's a sin against entertainment. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It sounds fun. It's a little fun. For a while. But Bekmanbetov shoots every killing spree like an addled gamer, working that slow-down-speed-up kill-shot cliche like a maniac. Read more
Ricardo Baca, Denver Post: The disconnect between intention and final product is a head scratcher. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: What next, "George Washington Werewolf"? Laugh not, history profs. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: 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. Read more
Eric D. Snider, Film.com: Bekmambetov doesn't expect us to take the premise seriously, exactly. But he doesn't seem to want us to laugh at it, either. Read more
Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter: Genre enthusiasts will lap up the mixture of action and fantasy, while history buffs who don't mind a bit of rewriting will dig into an alternative spin on the Civil War period. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: What ideally might have been playful and knowing is instead uptight and dreary, with a visual scheme that's so fake and cartoony, it depletes the film of any sense of danger. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Given the subject matter, an exercise in delicacy and restraint was unlikely, but it's too bad that the film's concept is way more entertaining than what has ended up on-screen. Read more
Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News: "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," which boasts one of the best film titles ever, just grazes its target. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Enormous in its scope and colossal in its stupidity. Read more
Bruce Diones, New Yorker: 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. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A B movie treated like an A movie that mostly ends up being a zzzzzzzzzz movie. Read more
Ian Buckwalter, NPR: To say that it's an exercise in style over substance is perhaps an overstatement, in that it suggests there's any substance here at all. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: This insipid mashup of history lesson and monster flick takes itself semi-seriously, which is truly deadly. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: 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 . . . Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The concept of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is worthy of a good chuckle or two, but the execution proves that sometimes a clever title does not beget a production of equal value. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: Of course it's ridiculous and tasteless and grotesque. It's ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A more entertaining movie than I remotely expected. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: The acrobatic repetition bores you breathless. Spare Benjamin Walker, who deserves to go on to better things. But the movie deserves a stake through the heart. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Bekmambetov ... stages hilarious, imaginative, almost free-form action sequences like nobody in the business. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Walker is a tall, lean guy with a big hat who can swing an ax. What else can be said? Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Here is the worst thing to happen to Abe Lincoln in a theater since he attended "Our American Cousin." Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is a blast, the best action movie of the summer. Read more
James Adams, Globe and Mail: 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. Read more
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: This film should be campy fun, but in Bekmambetov's unsteady hands, it feels laboured and unsatisfying. Read more
Scott Bowles, USA Today: Despite its factual dismemberment of the movie's namesake, Hunter bristles as summer action fodder. Honest. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a Civil War-era actioner of questionable taste and historical accuracy but surprisingly consistent entertainment value. Read more
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Possible resulting "fun" is only slightly mitigated by contemplation of the wearisome decadence of American popular culture. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Both terribly silly and a lot of fun. Read more