Not a Documentary

Rating: 7/10 (24 October 2009)

This is an excellent movie,it's not historically accurate, but very entertaining. Well acted and a great performance by Heath Ledger. Many people have discounted the history of it, but it's fiction not a documentary. Many of the comments in the goof section are inaccurate due to the lack of knowledge of the writers concerning flintlock weapons. Comments about impossible shots are not true. Shots of farther than 20ft with a flintlock pistol are very possible. Flintlock rifles were the sniper rifles of the time and extremely accurate. None of the shots shown in the film were impossible. I have regularly seen extremely accurate shots taken from a standard flintlock weapon in shooting competitions held near my home in Indiana.