Review – The Patriot

I guess maybe it’s comforting to know that Americans still have a war we feel we can be proud of. Revisionist history has done in the nobility of just about every armed conflict in our history except World War Two (which has taken some lumps but remains more or less on its feet) and the Revolution. This, of course, is a Mel Gibson epic about the older of the two “popular” wars. If you go in expecting Braveheart relocated to the Colonies, then you’re going to get just about exactly what you pay for. Some of the battle effects are kinda graphic (especially the scene in which a cannon ball takes off a guy’s head). But other than that, this is mostly just a whole bunch of “Hello my name is Inigo Montoya you killed my entire family prepare to die.” If the outlaw Josey Wales had a funny accent and fought for the good guys, this movie would already have been made around 30 years ago. Mildly amusing