646f9e108c While the Civil War rages on, President Abraham Lincoln must undertake an even more daunting task - destroying the Confederate Undead. During the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln realizes that there are zombies in the Confederate army and he organizes a small group of agents from the Secret Service to take over a fort in Savannah from the enemy to fight against the undead. He has to face not only the walking dead, but also Confederate soldiers, a traitor and his former love Mary Owens. Alright, whether or not &quot;Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies&quot; is The Asylum&#39;s attempt to cash in on the (what looks to become a major picture) &quot;Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter&quot; or not, well I have no idea about that. But it does seem a bit strange that just prior to the major Hollywood production release of the latter movie, The Asylum decided to put this on the market. That being said, then it seems awfully a lot like what happened with &quot;I am Omega&quot; and the major Hollywood picture &quot;I am Legend&quot; incident.<br/><br/>Regardless of the reasons for why &quot;Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies&quot; came into existence, then I have now seen it, not because I am American (which I am not), nor because it was with historically important American president Abraham Lincoln, no, but simply because it was something with zombies.<br/><br/>Taking place during the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and a selection of twelve secret service agents find themselves facing a threat of the living deadthey attempt to take over a ford. However, the living dead is not the only enemy the Union people are facing.<br/><br/>The story, oddly enough, was actually rather captivating and it managed to keep me interested right up to the very end. The storyline is a bit out there, when you think about it, but then again, isn&#39;t anything with zombies that? But that is not what I mean. What I meant was taking a historically important figure like Abraham Lincoln and have him battle zombies with a scythe? (And then later on this year, he will be battling vampires!) But oddly enough, in a comical sense, then the movie actually worked out quite nicely.<br/><br/>Having seen a bunch of previous works from The Asylum, then I can honestly say that they went all in this time, guns blazing and digging deep into their pockets. This movie is such a major step up the ladder, production-wise, for The Asylum, and just looking at the movie on the screen is a testament to them suiting up and stepping up to join the major league of movie production. The cinematography was great, the effects were great, and the people they had cast did great jobs. So it was really a refreshing touch to The Asylum&#39;s production value.<br/><br/>As for the zombies in &quot;Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies&quot;, well, then they actually looked alright, though there wasn&#39;t any major decay going on in them,I assume they were to be recently deceased, and that worked out okay. The gore in the movie was alrightwell, it just enough to keep a gorehound like me interested. And again, it was nice to see The Asylum step up and use better effects and CGIs for a change. However, one thing did puzzle me about the zombies. They opted to stray from the mainstream zombie, and had them standing about in a deathlike-slumbering trance when they weren&#39;t agitated by sound. That I found odd, why would they only be attracted to sound? So they had all lost the sense of sight? But again, it is a matter of personal preference I suppose. Some like Romero-style zombies, some like the fast and agile zombiesthose seen in &quot;28 Days Later&quot;, and some like something else entirely.<br/><br/>I found &quot;Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies&quot; to actually be good entertainment value. There wasn&#39;t any scares or real shock scenes in the movie, which would have been nice. But still, if you like zombie movies and wouldn&#39;t mind seeing a somewhat comical approach to the take on Abraham Lincoln, then &quot;Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies&quot; is definitely worth checking out.<br/><br/>As for the ending of the movie, well I am not revealing anything here, but there is a twist there in wait. I, personally, didn&#39;t really like it, but it was a nice turn of events nonetheless. Henry Ford said that history is bunk and this film certainly lives up to this premise.In 60 yearsa film fan I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve ever seen such a load of old cobblers,on the other hand it was strangely entertaining,laugh out loud funny with a genuinely chilling climax. Here we have Abraham Lincoln seeing off zombies having already sorted out the vampires in a previous film.What&#39;s next,cursed Egyptian mummies,werewolves or even helping Dr Who to sort out the Daleks. Abraham Lincoln himself was fond of telling a tall story so I think he would have been quite amused at the idea. Not going to dwell on the so called plot too much but a film that depicts Lincoln,Stonewall Jackson,Pat Garrett,a young Teddy Roosevelt (bully for you son) Lincoln&#39;s ex girlfriend Mary Owens and A.N.Other (I&#39;m not giving this one away) joining forces at Fort Pulaski to destroy zombies shows imagination at least. The ending is quite startling,the more discerning viewer might suss it out but it certainly caught me on the hop. How can one rate such a film,one for being such a load of old rubbish or ten for the sheer cheek and audacity and the laugh aloud moments.I think I will rate it somewhere in the middle and add an extra star for Bill Oberst Junior&#39;s convincing take on Lincoln.Was it just my imagination or did he sound very like Robert Duvall?What the heck give it another star for good old Stonewall Jackson&#39;s joke shop beard.
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