Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

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.

If you want to watch a politically correct retelling of the American revolution, with exaggerated British atrocities, with horrible acting (except for the British villain),then this is the film for you. I'm not an expert on acting, but even to me this was hard to take. I couldn't believe it was rated 7.1 when I viewed it. Women lecturing men on the philosophies of declaring freedom and fighting for it. Blacks accepted as equals and fighting side-by-side in the militia (if you look closely, there's even a black soldier in the *British* regular army's front line at the start of the last battle). The dialog sounded like something from Father Knows Best. 2 hours and 15 minutes of it! Beautiful costumes and scenery, engaging musical score, but overall insulting to your intelligence.

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.

Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son. The Patriot is easily the 2nd best performance of late actor Heath Ledger and also a great performance by Mel Gibson himself running around holding weapons or axes and destroying everything on his path and the fact that he always finds tragedy on his life is so sad he looses 2 sons, his wife and even his daughter seems to be apart from his life and Jason Isaacs as the bad guy is such a great casting sure there is some historic problems here and there but it's just a movie don't go that crazy about it cause it's still a pretty great movie and probably the best of director Roland Emmerich in years i give The Patriot a 10/10.