It's a shame there aren't more classical games to celebrate classical heroes, like the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. He may have freed the slaves, but it's more important to know that he freed us from the tyrranical reign of vampires from the South. At least that's the idea behind Seth Grahme-Smith's reimagined historical diary that the tallest U.S. president really liked to take a silver-tipped axe to those who nosh by night.
The film's directed by Timur Bekmambetov, director of Night Watch and Wanted, which both got a video game release in some form--Night Watch became a real-time strategy game while Wanted served as a semi-epilogue to the end of the film. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter gets no such luck. However, 20th Century Fox did comission Freddie Wong, the guy whose various YouTube videos you've probably seen, into giving a hypothetical look at "what if we, at Fox, DID give a damn about making a fun and faithful adaptation of a video game to a movie about a president using an axe on vampires?"
It does not disappoint.
