Another self-indulging Gibson movie

Rating: 2/10 (31 March 2002)

Wow. Just when you thought Mel Gibson couldn't possibly go more over the top than he did in Braveheart, this movie comes along.
The entire movie is basically nothing but a pedestal for Gibson to stand upon. Of course he is only portrayed as the hero with only virtues and no vices or flaws, but then again his character has the depth of the story. Simply put: Americans good, British bad. I suppose you have to be an American to like this kind of cheese.
Anyway, the entire movie cumulates in a supposedly 'epic' final battle in which the American 'peasants' defeat the British 'elite army'. Anyone who is by now not swept away by patriotism will thoroughly gag, because Gibson single-handedly rallies the American soldiers with a self-indulging display of superman heroism that culminates in his killing of the evil English officer in the cheesiest and most over-the-top way imaginable.
Avoid at all cost unless you like to see Gibson playing the super specimen of the male gender, or think the world ends once you leave America's border and the rest of the world is stupid.