"Up The Rebels" (and I'm British!!)

Rating: Null/10 (3 April 2001)

This is one masterpiece of a movie. The performances of all the cast (American and British) are superb, the sets and costumes are extremely authentic and the battle scenes are superbly executed. This movie was obviously aimed at tapping into the patriotic fervor of American audiences, but the film-makers did such a competent job of portraying the British as the baddies without being silly about it that I found myself cheering on Mel and the Colonials right from the start - and I'm an Englishman!! Of course, the outcomes of one or two of the plot threads were a little predictable (I won't go into details, so as to avoid writing spoilers for anyone who happens to be reading this who has not yet seen the movie) but I'd say this is one of the best historical drama epics of recent times, and I'll certainly be siting down to watch it again in the near future.