Outstanding movie that deserved a far better review at its release..

Rating: 10/10 (1 December 2006)

This was one of the very best movies ever made about the American Revolution. This movie was panned solely by the elitist critics because it portrayed (shudder) "children using guns." Sorry to the people who did not like this sad but true fact of life, but that is the way things happened for real back then. The British really did commit countless atrocities against American women and children during that War. There were the infamous prison ships that captured Americans were sent to die on from slow starvation. Many of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence themselves suffered greatly at the hands of the British. That is a movie Mel Gibson should make someday. Sorry to the English but your ancestors were not prim and proper in the way they brutalized America back in those days. All Americans and immigrants to the USA owe it to themselves to read the true history of what really happened to the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. One General who signed the Declaration for real whose own house had been commandeered by the English soldiers asked why it was not being fired upon by their own cannons? The men under his command did not want to target his home. He then gave the order himself to fire upon his own home which was then totally destroyed. In real life he died a penniless pauper on the streets after winning the war. This movie should be required watching for all American School children. Sorry if any English people are offended but no offense to you but the outrage I read in print and I heard in audio clips from your side of the pond over the brutality portrayed in this movie was far less than what was actually done to many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. This movie was brilliant and very well done. Bravo to Mel Gibson for making this great movie for us.