Excellent. Outstanding portrayal of war.

Rating: 8/10 (2 July 2000)

This movie is an excellent graphic portrayal of what war is like when it is taking place in your country and at your home. Mel Gibson does a masterful job portraying a man who tries to keep the impending Revolutionary War from touching his single parent family. This is not war in Europe or Vietnam; this is war in the Colonies, soon to become the US of A.