More often than not, the film, at the very least, entertains just fine, even if it has to sustain liveliness through rather cheesy, overt coloring up of atmosphere that I will touch more upon here in a little bit, but when thins slow down, they really slow down, surprisingly to an almost limp point, quieting things down and drying atmosphere up until you're left with a cold spell that often disengages, and sometimes even bores a bit.
Yeah, the film isn't exactly consistently strong, for although the final product rewards on the whole, there are almost as many issues with it as there are in a radical Christian church. Hey, if the dorky-looking Arthur Miller's marriage to Marilyn Monroe proved anything, it's that challenges that you'd figure would be impossible can be overcome, though this story wouldn't exactly be all that rewarding as a tragedy if it had a happy ending, and this film is nothing if not rewarding. Hey, I'm okay with Christians, but these people are taking it a little bit too far, and if Day-Lewis "went on" to have trouble convincing people to accept black people, then I doubt that, by this time, he was ready to take on these kind of people who were prejudice against people they thought were witches. I've been joking about how the fresh films in question should do a crossover, but I reckon this film that actually came out quite a while ago will suffice, even though Lincoln isn't so much taking on witches as much as he's taking on a bigger challenge: radical Christians. Speaking of which, everyone talks about how relevant this story is to this day and all, but I would have to say that the effectiveness of this film adaptation of such a story has become dated as of, believe it or not, earlier this year of 2013, because now I can't look at Abraham Lincoln going on and on about witches and not think about "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" and "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters". It's hard to trust girls, and, well, there's just no trusting teenagers at all, and yet, here these people were, letting too many people die because of the words of teenaged girls, but hey, we're talking about radical Christians, and ones who were in the colony that would become the state that would contains the suburbs of Boston, so should we really be all that surprised that these people didn't think all that rationally? I for one wouldn't even trust Winona Ryder in real life, not since that whole shoplifting ordeal, but Daniel Day-Lewis, on the other hand, well, he's just too awesome to deny, and it helps that he went on to be good ol' Honest Abe.
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