Good entertainment and not too far from the truth

Rating: 6/10 (3 October 2006)

This movie is very entertaining if you don't get hung up on the excessive violence and 'cartoonish' characterizations. Mel Gibson is way to heroic and the British way too evil, but overall it closely follows the way the war played out in the south. Most people are not familiar with that version of the war. If you think of the American Revolution as Lexington and minutemen 'provoking' gentlemanly British soldiers, this movie may not be for you. It clearly shows the reluctance of the people of the Carolinas to get involved in the war until the British start using terrorist tactics on them. The British miscalculated as the southerners pestered them to death!