For a true heros epic, rather watch Braveheart!

Rating: 4/10 (21 February 2001)

The Patriot might be a movie worth watching, but it has a major flaw: Every single "good" scene has been there before - in Braveheart!!!
This movie is far away from Braveheart quality. The characters are one-dimensional, the story is much too simple and the ending is very foreseeable. In many scenes, you know exactly what will happen next, for instance the (very, very, very) bad guy not being dead but only faking it to start a counter attack. This is just one example of way too many movie cliches that are used to make this film very, very, very long and certainly NOT well-dosed as far as strikes of fate that hit the main character go. When in Braveheart, Mel Gibson was taking revenge for the murder of his wife, in the Patriot there are way too many reasons to take revenge for to longer care for the Main Characters pain. Way too many. Not well-dosed. Overexposure to Pathos. That's what stays in mind after watching the Patriot.