Dangerous Propaganda

Rating: 1/10 (22 December 2004)

I don't like to use the word 'pretentious' very often. It's a 'high-sounding'word often used to dismiss something or someone without explaining why. But it best describes this film for me. Mel Gibson's myth-making and ego-mania is immense in this film. It was an egotistical and vicious propaganda film, I hated it. I believe it preached hatred too. It was'Bloodthirsty. It showed nothing but ignorance of history; villifying the British. It is a known fact that 1/3 were revolutionaries, 1/3 loyalists and 1/3 in the middle. It is sick how it vilifies the British commanders as genocidal scum, and then makes out the loyalists as dishonourable weasels. I often enjoy American patriotism and sentimentality, and am quick to defend films that get accused by so-called intellectuals or foreigners as exhibiting these qualities. But this film is 'all' lies and distortions masquerading as something wholesome and lofty. Shame on you Mel.