Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Great Film overall

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

This movie is gruesome at times, but it is fantastic. It is definately inaccurate historically, but it is badass so i can live with it.

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I get where Roland Emmerich was coming from on this. I mean he does make a living out of making horrible science fiction action flicks. Well, "Stargate" and "ID4" were good so they weren't ALL horrible...just mostly horrible.But this was a war movie. This was a war movie written by the same guy that wrote "Saving Private Ryan." So you get disappointed when the movie is turned into one man's quest for revenge.I work in history and the American Revolution--true or false--is best taught when it's presented as a revolution of and for lofty Enlightenment ideals. There is a lot to work with there that could make the movie deep and dramatic and....awesome.Instead you have the revolution presented as one man's quest for revenge.Why did America win? Why did we break free of England? Why didn't the world's largest empire flatten us? Was it because our ideals were better? Was it because Washington realized that all he needed to do was field an army and attrition and economics would win the war for him? Nope...it was because King George p!$$ed off the wrong man.The American Revolution transformed into a mindless plot less action flick, and not even a very good one.If I want a mindless Mel Gibson Action Movie, there are literally a ton of really good ones that are super entertaining. Despite the hate on him for being a racist Mel is an entertaining actor.Why would I want to sit through an Emmerich version of the Revolution? Well, honestly, because I didn't pay attention to who directed it until it was too late and I was in the theater.Stay away. It fails as both a War movie and an action movie.

Films like this one are hard to review because most all of them, if not all of them, have inaccuracies. History films are quite a bit misleading. They are not movies based on accuracy but fictional stories surrounding real people, places and actual events - so this easily throws off the audiences, leading them to believe that a History film is historically accurate when it is not. These types are just a movie and not a history lesson.The film itself is good. Has an interesting story, good characters (and the actors playing them), great visuals, good effects, beautiful cinematography, super sets and costumes etc... everything needed for a good movie - it's just not historically accurate (like other films in the History genre).7.5/10