revolting (literally)

Rating: Null/10 (28 March 2003)

as someone pretty objective regarding english and americans (i'm from israel) i find this film to be an insult to both.
mel gibson was for me the bad guy of the film, he's obviously a serial killer hiding behind the benign mask of a family man.
he orders his young sons to kill british troops, both risking them and corrupting them , luckily the suicide bombing wasn't invented yet otherwise he'd send them to do that.
he butchers all british soldiers and obviously enjoys it, he relishes the blood on his body.
he's a liar: the british general gives him his word but gibson is not a man of honor so he tricks him.
in contrast jason isaac's character is evil through and through but at least his honest about it, he is brutal because it serves his goals unlike gibson who does it for fun.
all the lines and characters in the picture are about as predictable as can be: the annoying french, the saintly negro and the noble savages feature heavily.
the direction is terrible with no feeling for human feelings. all the intended jokes are so terrible you wonder if they were jokes at all.
the only nice moment in the film is when isaacs impales heath ledger, you see it coming from a mile away, but i guess people those days didn't know baddies have to be killed at least twice.
overall i only recommend it to stupid people looking for bloody action and to intelligent people who are intersted in studies of bad taste.