Killing Lincoln

Engaging docudrama with lots of interesting detail. Worth watching.

The Nat Geo movie is a thoroughly entertaining, exciting docudrama.

Killing Lincoln gives us some of the lost minutia of the event. Those factoids, like the disappearance of the one autopsy photo of Booth, are intriguing. It’s only the TV-drama flourishes that aren’t.

It's a good refresher course, but not a hugely gripping one.

It's much more a bare-bones recitation, with some interesting sidelights in the telling.

The most interesting thing about Killing Lincoln, in fact, is how it can be so tepidly uninteresting.

The result is disappointing, sensationalistic and silly.