A nasty, vile and unnecessarily violent movie

Rating: 4/10 (24 July 2001)

Once again we are subjected to yet another piece of rewritten history, especially in order to make American history more noble at the expense of other nations. What disturbs me so much about this unpleasant film is the use of unnecessary violence in terms of incidents which did not historically take place. It is one long piece of cartoon characterisation of the English to make them more "evil" thus justifying the revengeful violence.

Gibson got away with rewriting history in Braveheart but with a better script than this tripe and with less manipulation of the facts was able to achieve just praise. However, this is a classic example of how not to make an historical film.