Independence day, 1780s

Rating: 4/10 (27 July 2000)

How do I bring my disgust over this movie to words? Difficult.
One of the things has to be the music: the music tells you a minute or two in advance what is going to happen the next five minutes.
Another thing: apart from the music, the predictability is just too much to bear. After an hour of movie, you know there's going to be another 'sympathy kill'. Which happens, 10 minutes later. You also know that Mel Gibson himself has to kill the b****rd, so the son won't succeed. It's template stuff. It's just too easy. You know when it becomes apparent to the viewer that Gibson and his sister-in-law aren't blood related, that there's a romance coming.
I don't think I need to go on. There are some positive things though. Gibson and his son (forget his real name) give good performances and his son's wife has a lovely face. Furthermore I would like to add that in typical Hollywood movies you can't discriminate against any minority, race or nationality. Except the English/British. It's just too ridiculous. An Englishman is always the bad guy, from 'Gone in 60 seconds' to 'Lost in space' and God knows how may more.
A couple of one-liners are okay ('Better one tyrant three thousand miles away, then three thousand tyrants one mile away') and the cannonball-mutilations are spectacular, but as a whole, I think I am lenient in giving this movie a 5 out of 10.