Usually a movie of this type tells WHY, where, when...this movie does not tell Why Lincoln was killed. Booth had been planning to kidnap Lincoln, VP, and two cabinet members to exchange for Confederate prisoners...then General Lee surrendered and the war was over...all the prisoners would be free soon, so the plan was in limbo. Then Lincoln made a speech on April 9, 1865 and said that we need to move forward with the black citizens to vote! Booth really took this badly and told people after the speech that would be Lincoln's last speech! So then Booth met with his kidnapping group and announced that the plans were changed from kidnapping to murder...Lincoln was killed but the rest of the targets were spared because the gang was not committed to the death plan when it played out. Very little was brought out about the conspirators...mostly on the woman that owned the boarding house...so why they gave the movie that title was unclear to me. If the movie had started in January when the group was planning the kidnapping and then Booth at the April 9, 1865 speech and showing him at the meeting telling the group about changing their plans to murder and why...it would have made a better movie.
Review of The Conspirator
