2012 - ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER, another film in the Lincoln screen trilogy

This first film to be released based on the life of Abraham Lincoln in 2012.  Putting it mildly, this is a very different take on Lincoln's life than the Spielberg film.

It seems that Lincoln along with being a politician is also a vampire hunter.  Apparently the South is loaded with vampires and they are using slaves as food.  Lincoln comes to the rescue using his resources as President and slayer of the undead. 

Vampire chicks always wear tight outfits.

The film took a beating from the critics with the primary emphasis being that this story line was taken extremely seriously by the director (whose name I do not wish to type) and the producer Tim Burton.  Got to say they were right on this one.  The seriousness which runs throughout the film is a little absurd, after all this is a film about vampires.

Let's get this out of the way.  This is a typical summer film, too much computer faked imagery, too many absurd slow motion action scenes and just too dumb.

105 minutes.

2008 - WANTED, garbage

A put upon accountant finds out he is the son of the world's greatest assassin.  He is trained by a mysterious organization of killers to also become an assassin in this very crappy film. 

Wanted is based on a comic book by extreme hack Mark Miller author of Kick-Ass, Superman: Red Son, Robo Hunter and Maniac 5 among lots of other stuff.  Of course they couldn't use Miller's original plot since it involved a secret society of killers eliminating all the super heroes in the world and hypnotizing the entire population of the planet to forget there ever were super heroes, how stupid can you get.

The director was Timur Bekmambetov, thank god for cut and past on that name.  The spastic action scenes are reminiscent of his Russian fantasy films Night Watch and Day Watch with over the top action effects scenes that are computer enhanced to a point that goes beyond extreme incoherence.

The acting is probably not worth commenting on.  The ridiculously thin Angelina Jolie is supposed to be a big time assassin and it looks like she can barely hold her big gun in her hands.  James McAvoy is the real star of the film and probably does as well as he can with the silly role of the assassin in training accountant.

No Sale on this one.

110 minutes screenplay by Michael Brandt, Derek Haas and Chris Morgan.