Mel Gibson's world of pure imagination

Rating: 1/10 (1 December 2017)

For a so-called historical drama, 'The Patriot' seems to care a lot less about presenting the facts and reality of the events of the American Revolution and more about smearing the British through lies and deception.
Not only are the events portrayed in this film misleading and historically inaccurate, but some are completely fabricated. In one scene, for example, a British soldier burns a church full of Americans to the ground, something that never happened and was clearly just thought-up by Gibson because the actual events weren't juicy enough for the anti-British narrative he was pushing.
Presenting these events in a fictional context would be bad enough, but including them in what's supposed to be a true and accurate historic account is dangerous. It's also completely unnecessary, what exactly was Mel Gibson trying to achieve by distorting the truth, other than to vilify British soldiers?