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One of the best film I ever seen!
I loved very much this movie.
It's never boring, there is a lot of action and suspense too.
The movie is very realistic and interesting. It shows how brave were the Americans for their liberty.
The actors act very well.
The costumes are perfect and guide the viewer to another time and place. The cast is masterful at what they do, and the writers have truly made a movie that has brought the story full circle as well as developed a plot making the audience think about the true value of family, and patriotism, and how the two work together
The Patriot is a movie about a man named Ben (Mel Gibson), a hero of the French and Indian War. A man who just wants to raise his seven children in peace. But it's not going to be that way. The Revolutionary War is starting and his eldest son, Gabriel (Heath Ledger) enlists to fight for his country and his belief that all men are created equal. The war still seems far away until the day when it comes too close to home for Ben's comfort. In a rage, Ben and two of his young sons kill over twenty British officers. Ben's unique and somewhat savage way of fighting is described by a survivor of the battle. "It was like he was a ghost... one moment he was there, the next, he wasn't" This earns him the nickname "The Ghost" and the wrath of the British officers. Sending his young children to live with their Aunt, he joins the war, gathering men to fight with him. Using tequnices that surprise and mock the British, they begin to turn the war around in their favor. The Patriot shows Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger at their best. This movie shows a side to the American Revolution that can not be found in the history books. It is the portrayal of a family, torn by war, and the sacrifices they had made for America's liberty.
You will enjoyed the patriot like me, I think, so buy it!

A Revolution Done Right
Unlike the turgid, derivative disasters that were INDEPENDENCE DAY and GODZILLA, director Roland Emmerich's THE PATRIOT is prestige filmmaking from the first frame, both a riveting wartime extravaganza and an involving familial drama that will garner deserved attention in the awards season. Without displaying any evidence that he was capable of doing so, Emmerich has transcended his exploitation-film roots and turned screenwriter Robert Rodat's -- who also wrote the flawed, but solid screenplay for SAVING PRIVATE RYAN -- screenplay into a top-notch production. Mel Gibson, in the title role, leads a superb cast that is more than equal to the task of animating American history.

Though it runs nearly three hours (ample room for mistakes aplenty), THE PATRIOT possesses none of the cornball tendencies of the director's other work. The film sweeps up the viewer and carries them effortlessly from the quiet, homespun beginning on the plantation of Gibson's character to the bloody killing field of Saratoga. Along the way there is violence -- and lots of, so leave the kids out of this adventure -- love, hate and tragedy. Emmerich's in-house special effects group brings sprawling battles to vivid life, resurrects landscapes that have long since vanished and, in one too short sequence, even takes the film to the waves in a pitched sea assault.

So well-drawn are the even the smaller actors on this broad canvas that emotional investment runs high, far beyond what one would expect, given Emmerich's body of work thus far. Rather than pummel the audience with scene after scene of detached carnage, THE PATRIOT creates a very real sense of dread, waste and pain as the American Revolution plays out on the screen. Every bullet hurts, every cannonball is a thing of terror and every character, down to the cameo level, actually matters, live or die.

In a summer-film landscape scattered with corpses (M:I-2, SHAFT, etc.), THE PATRIOT is truly something different. Telling its story with fire and style, the film has something more important than slam-bang thrills on its mind and delivers on every level with action, history and a surprising amount of heart.

Full of yawns
The Patriot

Score: 49/100

What exactly we're we expecting from The Patriot? It's from the director of Godzilla and stars Mel Gibson. A little bit of a mix, there. It actually turns out that this is a far below average movie, that fails with every turn, and The Patriot's basic moral is that Hollywood is completely finished with making good war-hero films.

Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) is a South Carolina planter who is still haunted by his notoriously brutal past as a soldier in the French and Indian War. When the American Revolution comes, he chooses not to fight for the Continental Army because he wants to protect his family. But when the British Colonel Tavington (Jason Isaacs) threatens their welfare and kills one of his sons, he chooses to enlist. Martin becomes the leader of a makeshift militia, which consists of peasants, slaves, a minister, and assorted other irregulars. During the war Martin and his men discover that they will pay a steep personal price for their rebellion. But thanks to their courage and bravery, they are also destined to pay a pivotal role in turning the tide against the Redcoats.

The Patriot is an over-long, boring and pointless picture that delivers only in a couple of scenes. The cinematography is quite stunning, but some some un-purposely over-blown performances (especially from Jason Isaacs), messy direction and a premise that could've been written better by monkies don't help The Patriot be the Oscar-worthy film it might've been if the script and direction had been taken into different hands.

Disappointing and rarely interesting, The Patriot is a film that makes me proud not to be an American war hero like the characters in this film.

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