awesome movie

Rating: 10/10 (15 December 2006)

The movie was awesome!!!! Even though not everything was EXACTLY true it still showed a lot of what happened back in the revolutionary war. Mel Gibson's character was supposed to represent Francis Marion the Swamp Fox and show how he used guerrilla warfare. In the movie Benjamin Martian did not want to fight for the revolutionary war because he thought it was just as bad to have one horrible ruler 3000 miles away then have 3000 one mile away. He changed his mind when Col. William Tavington shot his son while trying to save his older brother Gabriel. Then in anger he takes his two sons, kills 20 British soldiers and saves his son who ends up going back to the continental army anyways but this time instead of watching his son ride away to his doom he goes with him and becomes commander of part of the army. The person who controlled the army knew about what happened at fort wilderness. He had Gabriel transferred to be under his fathers control.