THIS MOVIE SUCKS MORE THAN INDEPENDENCE DAY AND BRAVEHEART!

Rating: 4/10 (8 August 2000)

When I went to watch THE PATRIOT I didn't really expect much. I didn't expect much from Roland Emmerich, because I knew this movie would suck. After watching it I can say: `It sure did!' There's no doubt that the producers were inspired by Gibson's own BRAVEHEART - especially by the battle scenes. But unlike in BRAVEHEART the battle scenes here were not well made. The surround sound was great though, and the distant shots were OK. But the close-ups almost gave a head-ache. THE PATRIOT has quite a bunch of clichés: the English are portrayed as ruthless terrorists (like in BRAVEHEART), Gibson's character has an enemy (little !!SPOILER!! , although predictable), who he `will kill', etc. The filmmakers (politically correct) also show that they care about racism: (another little SPOILER) there's a slave who joins the war so he can get his freedom back and finally becomes a hero (By the way: Why only ONE slave...?). I don't know why I'm complaining about these things. I knew this movie would be like that. I expected THE PATRIOT to be a `brain candy' movie, like BRAVEHEART or INDEPENDENCE DAY, but it wasn't even entertaining. It was more `brain crap' than `brain candy'!