Pure pain for the viewer.

Rating: 1/10 (21 November 2004)

The popularity of this film embarrasses me. As an American and a student of history, I watched this movie with overwhelming nausea. The characters are one-dimensional stereotypes, the plot is predictably cheesy, and the script could have been written by my 13-year-old cousin. Mel is a revolutionary war 'action hero' in the vein of Rambo or the Terminator. Undaunted by his mere flesh wounds, he single-handedly wipes out an entire squad of British troops. He's a one man wrecking machine, rolling over the 'evil' British troops in a film that similarly rolls/glosses over the realities of the American Revolution. An overly corny, patriotic schlock-fest. 1/10