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This is not History, It's a joke.....
Devlin and Emmerich's careers as movie makers started to fizzle with this movie, and it's easy to see why, with Gibson's wooden performance and way over-kill production values, this movie was no better then Braveheart or Gladiator, Big productions with no heart.
At least the John Williams's music is nice to listen too.

Mel Gibson Scores
I remember trying to convince my cousin Sam to see this movie. I had already seen it, and I thought it was great. He kept saying "I've seen Brave Heart, and let's face it: what's so different about this movie?". I tried to tell him about the differences between the Mel Gibson characters, but he wouldn't budge. We ended up seeing X-Men, which wasn't anything of a movie. So I hope he reads this review, and he might change his mind.

Well, let's start off by saying it's partly true. Now I mean partly, because some of the scenes in the movie are unimaginable. I was listening to a call in talk show, and there was an argument about the scene where the British burn down a church with people inside. If it was true or not, it left a mark on me.

Mel Gibson plays a very powerful role. His oldest kid has just left to fight in the revolutionary war. Gibson decides to join in order to protect his family. He fought in a previous war, and his experience shows on the battlefield. He has a clever mind, and it leaves you hanging to see what he'll do next.

Another character, Heath Ledger, plays the oldest son who joins the war. His character's view on things makes it hard to figure who's right: Gibson or Ledger.

So there you have it. See the movie. Don't be afraid to cry, Half the theater was when I went. And be warned: This movie will make you think.

You wait years for a film about the revolution and get THIS?
There are so few movies, good or otherwise, that focus on American Revolution, that any film on the subject deserves attention. Unless it is this one. An absolutely inane mess, with so many errors, dramatic missteps, cliches, and outright lies that listing them would take two feet of page space, THE PATRIOT is the early-American equivalent of Michael Bay's PEARL HARBOR, and that isn't a compliment. Essentially a rip-off of Gibson's own BRAVEHEART, here's another of Hollywood's endless parade of tired, by-the-numbers "revenge" stories. And yet, who could've expected any better from the ding-dongs who made INDEPENENCE DAY, the single most mindless big-budget film in Hollywood history (and the competition for that title is truly stiff)? Two stars for some excellent, expensive 18th-century production design, and half-decent (but no more than half) battle scenes. Do your brain a favor and go watch John Ford's DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK instead or, for that matter, 1776, but this pseudo-epic really isn't worth the time.

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