Saving Lincoln

Interesting story but really amateurish.

This was historically accurate and although it doesn't pack the punches of Ken Burn's Civil War, it's absolutely worth watching. The civil war was more complicated than most people realize and Abraham Lincoln was a literal target for assassination. This movie focuses on what Lamon's involvement was to foil attempts against President Lincoln and also includes vignettes of his conversations with Mary, George B McClellan, and others which help show some of the other issues occurring during his presidency.

One of the better Lincoln movies showing how he dealt with the horrors of war

I liked the production style of the movie and learn some stuff as well.

Good movie, great acting. i love it that it revealed which party stood up for civil rights.

I felt moments of sheer brilliance and laughter juxtaposed with sharing Abe, Mary, and Hill's emotions as if they were my own. Your endeavors are acts of sheer genius as all of the great discoveries the historical world!!! Your story has rekindled the notion that mature men and women can befriend each other without stooping to the low levels as to employ sexual tension to lure the audience into believing the story. You have performed countless tasks seemingly impossible in this modern age of film production and have advanced the notion of moral priority in a film portraying the lives of historical figures of premiere importance and the inter-relationships that they shared. Mr. Litvak, you are the Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, of theatre and film. Weaving historical images, stories, feelings, and emotions of bygone eras and then reincarnating them so that our society will see what history would have long forgotten if not resurrected by you and your surrounding cadre' of collective genius. The casting and their performance could not have been better...at times, the film absorbed one into the seen as if you were truly listening and watching the true historical figures. Congratulations on a refreshing theatrical endeavor and not succumbing to the accepted morays of the film industry. Dr. Charles Wright, MD, MS

A touching and accurate portrayal of the trials Mr. Lincoln's friend and self appointed body guard went through to keep our president alive and safe. I recommend this movie to all my friends that are deeply into an accurate and in depth knowledge of American History and the Civil War period.

Looks very promising!

No, its not a regular feature film. Its filmed entirely on a green screen stage, which necessarily gives it a feel of a play instead of a movie. Its backgrounds are historical photos. So necessarily it takes a higher level of suspension of disbelief, but once you get there its actually more authentic. Some of the criticism is that it is just rehashed overview of Lincoln history. Of course it covers known ground but from a unique inside perspective of Ward Lamon, not just a bodyguard but a confidante since Springfield days. If that perspective doesn't work for you especially that one of Lamon's roles was of court jester - when Lincoln was too burdened to laugh at his own jokes - Lamon was there to sing and make him laugh - while trying to keep him alive.

Apparently overdue for an audience review by someone not associated with the film or dependent on its success, allow me. Let's just say it's the most bewildering collision of under-acting (Tom Amandes as "Abe") and over-acting (nearly everyone else), this effort (neither artistically nor technically definable as a "film") is barely usable as a free video loop for fidgety families to watch while awaiting a battlefield tour.