More over the top predictable cliche from Mel

Rating: Null/10 (24 July 2000)

Mel Gibson should stick to the likes of Payback and Mad Max. It seems that he is drawn, however, to the epic aimed at an entirely US audience. I felt that whilst the director created a beautiful looking film that the content was so utterly contrived as to make it unbearable. Whilst simultaneously making the British out to be Barbarian thugs and half-wit gentry they also managed to throw is terrible cliches on racism, family values and guilt. The 'reformed' soldier with a heart of Gold defending the liberty of his family against a terrible Hun was more propaganda than I have ever seen in a film.
When will the Americans stop realising that History is not something to be turned around and butchered to fit the American dream in the likes of this film and U571 (Who actually captured the Enigma 2 years before the Yanks joined the war?), but something to be appreciatted and learnt from. No wonder with each generation of Filmmakers the arrogance in their nation grows thereby creating more and more wild versions of History.
I await with mute anticipation the American Version of Lock Stock and two smoking barrels. Why it is assumed that it will be greater for being set in downtown LA is beyond me.
How would the Americans feel if the British made a film of the Bombing of Nagasaki or Hiroshima with good old Tommy's with their fingers of the Trigger helping to rescue the helpless Americans from their useless flailings?