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Summary: The best Movie I have seen in a long time
Review: This movie was incredable. Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger give outstanding performances in this movie and truly pull your heart strings. The plot is basicly Mel Gibson hates war (we learn the reason why later in the movie) and is outraged when his eldest of 7 children, Gabriele, in lists in the revolutionary war. He later comes back with a flesh wound and is recooperating at home when the enemy attacks the Martin home. Mel's second oldest son Thomas attempts to save his brother from severe punishment and is killed. Now Mel Gibson seeks revenge on the enemy. I cried laughed and really thought while watching this movie. I would reccomend it to anyone.
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Summary: Ambivalent about one viewing
Review: I certainly could not watch it again, which is my judge of a movie's worth. The Director / screenright pursue a cheap plot. It is certainly not about what most would expect, the traditiional reasons for the war. Mel Gibson seemded to lack focus. I suggest you try Braveheart for better acting, directing, writing etc.Braveheart rated 3. (can watch it a few times without ambivalence setting in).
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Summary: Braveheart Anyone?
Review: I liked this movie the first time I saw it.........when it was called Braveheart. It was fun to watch though so I give it a good rating.
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Summary: A must for your collection.
Review: The filming and realism is fantastic in this movies. You must see the Battle scenes and the costumes. This story takes place in 1776, Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), a hero of the Fort Wilderness campaign, now a widower living in South Carolina with seven children to raise on his own, is once again confronted with war in "The Patriot." Mr. Martin believes in the cause, but has had enough of war and killing in his life, and is troubled by the prospect of leaving his children orphans if he must fight again; but as in real life, things happen that change your mind despite your beliefs and he soon realizes that he has no choice other than to join in the conflict. Mr. Gibson does a great job of capturing the inner conflict of a man torn between principle and necessity. He imbues him with the stoicism needed to shoulder responsibility, but also with the human touch required of fatherhood. Historically, whether or not "The Patriot" is accurate in detail is not really important. It is, after all, one man's story, a dramatization set against the backdrop of this particular conflict. That it conveys a sense of time, place and importance is what matters, and that it does. Film that is at once both intimate and of epic proportions. It is artistically rendered, beautifully photographed, and well acted; I just don't think there's a reasom for missing this film. So go see it today.
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Summary: Not enough substance for *one* hour, let alone *three*!
Review: This is three hours of very little! Lush visuals seduce in the opening scenes, but gradually - and oh, so slowly! - it becomes clear that the off-pink of a romantic sunset over meticulously recreated Colonial skylines and expansive cotton fields is little more than a pretty backdrop for a story that takes it's langurious time stretching one theme to the breaking point, and then caulking the ruptures with well choreographed but cartoonishly gruseome battle scenes, and undisguised attempts to grab and pull at the audience's jugular. (If anyone has ever wanted to see a vivid recreation of what a cannon ball can do to a human body, then this is the film for you!) Given the movie's length there is ample time to draw character. Obviously, the film makers didn't see the point. We are given a host of rag-tag militia men whose conflicting personalities are not that different from say, your favorite band of muscle men, freaks and geeks who are usually asked to land on an alien planet and waste the extra-terrestrials. (A weakly addressed subplot regarding slavery is almost too laughable to even be offensive.) Those characters we can summon compassion for are killed, just to make sure we're still paying attention. And of course, what would a contrived and cliche-driven film be without a host of foppish British bad guys? The amazing thing is that there is almost no story to speak of here. The narrative shuffles back and forth between Mel Gibson's earnestly over-acted quest to avenge the murder of his son, and the widespread effort to defeat the British on American soil. The end result is a prolonged dissapointment.
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Summary: the patriot
Review: this is a movie thats always keeping you in your seats. the movie is one of mel's best performances . this is an outstanding movie about the revolutionary war in which mel after losing one of his sons went into the army . he got some troops and started attacking british troops carrying suppilies.
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Summary: Well, it's BIG
Review: I had thought that Brian De palma had cornered the market on derivative movies.Wrong Again.This torpid drama,enlivened by a script written with John Wayne in mind,casts Mr Gibson as a pacifist former war hero{CLICHE!CLICHE!!]of course, drawn out to fight[some pacifist]the oinvading British. Hell, any movie that bashes the British cant be all that bad, though this one comes quite close. Lets see, the dastardly,foul officer,the traitor, the kowtowing love interest,the noble former slave[yeah,i'd willingly fight for people who would have bought and sold my wife and children]the heroic ally,thewell, the lists go on and on,ad infinitum.The acting is not too bad[considering the script]though the nromally wonderful Chris Cooper is reduced to standing around looking uncomfortable.Gibson kids aquit themselves[ playing his children]. The scenery is lovely, the cinematography very good. The decapitations,mutilations and dismemberments now becoming commonplace in all large scale movies are all here, all unncessary.Some scens seem lifted from Manns last of the mohicans, others from Braveheart.A real INTERESTING plot device would have been a pacifist who WOULD NOT FIGHT.Well, it would have been different[though with these people, it would have been lifted, scene by scene form gandhi].Overrated,overblownand a waste.
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Summary: This is a movie I am absolutely adding to my collection!
Review: The Patriot is a wonderful story of love, war, and Mel Gibson gives a wonderful performance. I disagree with all the people who say it's cheesy. People ,I feel, expect to see a Braveheart with nothing but fighting.This movie's aim wasn't all blood and fighting, but the hardships people faced because of the revolution. I laughed, cried, and watched this movie many times.I recommend it to anyone.If you are a person who loves blood and real war scenes then this movie is not for you. I loved it and the people whom I recomended it to loved it also.Mel Gibson's performance is wonderful and I loved the whole story about his family and the way the war scenes are put in. I enjoyed it thoroughly and can't wait to get it on video!
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Summary: The best war movies I've seen, and one of the best overall
Review: Mel Gibson gives a performance to stir the soul in this instant war classic. It is the tale of South Carolinian Malitia in the Revolutionary War. As the story unfolds, his house is divided between joining and neutrality. A crazed British Cavalry Sergeant's quest to kill Mel adds fire to the already stirring plot. This is a great movie for history buffs and anyone liking to see gore (and there's plenty).
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Summary: An opinion from Roland Emmerich's home country
Review: There are 3 things that I want to say at first: 1.) I remember a sentence from a U.S. movie specialist on CNN who said after Independence day: "Great! Now the Krauts have to teach us patriotism". I do not remember his name, but I would like to know what he thinks of this movie (anybody else please E-Mail me). 2.) When the movie was a newcomer in the cinemas, I bet that there was one 100% effective way to have the entire cinema for yourself while watching it - watch it in an U.K. cinema. 3.) We call no. 2 the "Spielberg-Effect" looking back at "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan". (Only the pupils and students were forced to watch them) "The Patriot" is a perfect mix of typical heroism, blood-soacked violence, and the standard confrontation of the bitter hero and the bad-as**d bad guy. And, to make this one clear, the evil British Commander of the Dragoons is playing his role that good that after the first hour, even the most pure-hearted pacifist would cry out to have him being cut to pieces with a rusty razor blade one centimeter per hour (that's one-fifth inch). Therefore, I really was disappointed about the way, he finally bites the dust, but the monumental view of U.S. and Brit armies marching against each other, blasting away at point-blank range, are compensating that. Despite all the action and running blood, there still is plenty of story left to take part in. A loving father, trying to protect his kids, but having to fight in order to accomplish that - well, that's the story of EVERY war in known history - but looking at the work that Emmerich accomplished, "The Patriot" is the new apex of patriotic movies. Having seen, enjoyed and loved this movie from the first to the last second, personally I am wondering about what went wrong that the good relationship between the Americans and the French had suffered that much during the last 224 years. Reviewing the entire movie - and the money it consumed - I think that it is clear now that the Swabians (where Emmerich comes from) DO now how to make the best of their money. But that's a personal one.
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