Mad Max: The Continental Warrior

Rating: 3/10 (10 August 2006)

See if this plot outline is at all familiar: Mel Gibson wants to live a quiet life with his family. But all is not well in the world, and one of his young sons is murdered. Mel flips out, and storms off to seek his revenge, not only on his son's killer, but on everyone associated with the murderer, which includes the entire British army.
No, it's not Braveheart, but you'd be forgiven for thinking so. It's also not as much fun as The Road Warrior, which was a better film in every way.
At least it improves a little over Braveheart, in which nearly every Scottish and English character was played by an Irish actor. In The Patriot, several of the British soldiers are actually British, even though the only American "patriot" in the film is played by Heath Ledger, who was Australian.
I would not be at all surprised if the makers of this film thought that the real reason the colonists fought the revolution was because George Washington's father (or son, or wife) was killed by King George III. Or that the Civil War started when a young Robert E. Lee insulted a young Abraham Lincoln, leading to years of resentment and loathing that finally culminated in all-out war between the two men. That's history for you: it's all about revenge.