Exploits the American Revolution rather than honoring it

Rating: 3/10 (2 July 2000)

This film trivializes the American Revolution, reducing it to an excuse to make an action/special effects film that tiresomely reprises some other Mel Gibson films. The portrayal of British troops as the atrocious mass murderers of civilians is inaccurate and inexcusable.
On a film making level, this film has a strangely unfinished quality. Some of the computer-generated sequences have so many details left out that they look like animated cartoon. A microphone boom is visible in four or five shots.
Ugh!