The Patriot

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Summary: Great American Movie!!!!
Review: Movies about the American Revolution are few and far between. A movie of this sort was long overdue. This movie is a must see for every American. Our founding fathers took great risks, overcame great obstacles, and faced many hardships in creating the greatest nation in the history of the world. This movie may not be historically accurate, but it does have all the elements (risks, obstacles, politics, and hardships) that the continentals did face. If you are proud to be an American, and do not apoligize to the world for being an American, you will love this movie. If you are a democrat you probably won't like it.

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Summary: A Pro-American, Pro-Southern Classic
Review: For those of you tired of seeing honorable themes like devotion to family, moral courage, bravery, and the right to keep and bear arms bashed in Hollywood, this film is a surprising departure from the normal left-wing garbage.

Those of you Brits and others out there who think this film is an exaggeration, get educated. Put down your pro-UN pablum for a minute and read Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and Thomas Jefferson's "Declaration of Independence". You will find our grievances against the crown more than justified our taking up arms. And remember this- if it weren't for the Yanks and their guns, y'all would be speaking German now. The truth hurts.

All that aside, this film is a new classic. Its superb battle scenes, plot, moral arguments, characters, and costumes make it well worth buying.

Patriotic Americans, especially Southerners, will go away greatly satisfied.

Bitter, hateful, anti-American Liberals and gun-grabbers need not apply.

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Summary: ROLAND EMMERICH...
Review: OK, i do not understand THE PATRIOT,a pale copy of BRAVEHEART and THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. So i advise you to buy theses two last one rather than THE PATRIOT. Because BRAVEHEART and THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS are TWO MASTERPIECES, and by copying them, THE PATRIOT just wanted to becomes one, but roland emmerich did not succeed, sorry roland, we know the originals.

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Summary: Equal Opportunity
Review: Okay maybe there wasn't very much in this movie depicting the plight of slaves, but hello, it was a movie about a Father's love for his family. The movie was already three hours long and it did a fine job of portraying the conflicting emotions which must have went through the main character's head. It was a great STORY. If you want to watch a story which focuses on other aspects of pre-Civil War times, where slavery is part of the story line.....well this movie isn't for you. This story is about one man, and his family. I am sure that many people during that time period did go through so much more than just slavery. Slavery was awful and it is the crux of many well made and enjoyable films, but it is just not the main backdrop in THIS story. You could probably tell the story through any one of the other characters', in this movie, eyes and you would have came up with a completely different take. It must really be a downer to go to movies and completely pick apart every aspect of the experience. Personally, I go to the movies to be entertained, not to sit through a history lesson, (I can watch history on the History Channel or the Discovery Channel.....which I do, FOR FREE.....well except for the monthly programming fee : ) ). This movie from me and my husband recieved a "thumbs up."

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Summary: Patriot
Review: Ir has been a while since taking American History, but if I was a teacher, I would show this movie as an example what a significant part the Militia played in our history.

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Summary: Full of yawns
Review: 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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Summary: Easily The greatest War movies of all time! Easily
Review: Greatest war movie about a man (mel gibson) who is living with his large family during the revoltionary war that does not want to join. He finaly joins because a British general shoots his son. If i said any more i would spoile all the good parts.

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Summary: They Can Take Our Money, But They Cannot Take¿Our Freedom!
Review: FREEZE! Slowly put your money back into your pockets. Don't do anything rash; watch anything, but not The Patriot. Hollywood assumes they can make money off our patriotism by squeezing out a shoddy "underdog America" flick just before Independence Day. On the surface The Patriot , directed by Roland Emmerich, was about fighting for your country and succeeding because the 'lobsterbacks' are bad and we are good. Aha, that is only superficial; underneath the surface, it is all about perpetuating the felled myth that moviegoers will pay the exorbitant and watch the subordinate. The Patriot opens with a scene that inevitably becomes foreshadowing: widower Benjamin Martin, played by Mel Gibson, star of critically acclaimed Braveheart, has just finished building a rocking chair. Being one of many exhausted attempts, his family waits with baited breath to see if this one will sustain his weight and not buckle. The chair shattered like crystal chandelier.

Mel Gibson's acting was his worst ever. In Braveheart he did a great job feeling the emotion that William Wallace may have felt, and he was soothingly natural for the part, but in The Patriot, he was as awkward as a duck-footed cat. Not too be stood up, Heath Ledger acted more the worse. There's something about reenacting historic events that puts actors in "declamatory" mode. A declamatory, or demonstrative actor is one that plays off of a strong stereotype, rather than doing what the actual person would do, they act merely to portray a stereotype. A good example of a declamatory actor is, well, Mel Gibson in Hamlet. "To be or not to be..." (you get the idea) The embarrassing special effects are another negative. ure, I heard somebody scream in pain as a cannon ball seemingly shot into the audience, but the digitized backgrounds were hackneyed and the battle scenes seemed distant no matter how close the cameraman zoomed. I am convinced the 'special' effects were shot in the late 1700's. Furthermore, I want to know where my $7.00 is going. I might take my brother's suggestion and just watch the trailers from now on, two minutes of intrigue beats a 158minutes of coma inducing melodrama with a balled fist.

Against his father's will, Gabriel Martin, played by Heath Ledger (if you're among the fifteen people who watched Ten Things I Hate About You, then you probably recognize him as the teenage Verona) decides to march off to war and defend the colonies against the red-coated Brits. Benjamin Martin is himself a veteran of war and adamantly opposes his son Gabriel's enlistment, but like every parent of who ever lived, Benjamin learns that teenagers have iron skulls which cannot be penetrated by reason, experience, or even "kryptonite." The war wages on, and after the assassination of his second eldest son, Benjamin Martin decides to rejoin ranks and fight alongside Gabriel. The plot continues along epic lines, and is an interesting story once the ball begins to roll, but the poor dialogue and malnourished characters as well as underdeveloped emotion toward characters makes this movie more of a rental.

The Patriot is not, however, the touchstone of cinematic ineptitude, currently that spot is reserved for Mission 2 Mars, but it does not seize the audience like Gladiator or Braveheart. If you want an American catharsis, watch fireworks and listen to Neil Diamond's "Coming to America," if you want comedy, watch Me, Myself & Irene, and if you want action/suspense, watch The Perfect Storm, but do not watch The Patriot.

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Summary: Funniest Movie of the Year
Review: Mel Gibson is a peaceful plantation-owning father who wants nothing more than to make a nice rocking chair for himself, from which he can (presumably) sit on the porch, pat his yung'uns on the head and command his slaves with wise benevolence. Then one day a merciless Redcoat slaughters most of Mel Gibson's family. Silly limey! Didn't he see Mad Max, Lethal Weapon, Braveheart, Ransom, Payback, etc.? Doesn't he know Gibson is hiding a violent past, and is just going to come after him in a bloodthirsty rage, mowing down scores of dimwitted Brits with his trusty tomahawk (in some of the most incredulous action sequences in Gibson's career--all that's missing is the dislocated shoulder gimmick from "LW")? Gibson has never looked more jive than he does in this pretentious vigilante's tale; he has played this character one too many times, and anyone who appreciates American history at all ought to be offended by the crass misuse it gets at Emmerich's hands.

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Summary: PATHETIC
Review: As stated in previous reviews, this movie was very predictable and so disgustingly politically correct that it will make you want to shut it off if you have HALF a brain. Filled with cliches, you will neither be on the edge of your seat, nor even remotely intrigued by Gibson's typical "mad-because-of-loved-ones-death" character. I mean, we've seen this ten times before, ala Lethal Weapon II, Braveheart, etc... I finally shut the movie off when Gibson's son walks up to one of the main "bad guys" after he's shot him to "make sure he's dead"- only to have the villian turn around with the typical concealed back-up weapon and stab the idiot! I mean, who in the heck walks across a field to check on one man in battle when muskets are going off all over the place?!?!? Don't even rent this film.