Braveheart in the USA? Don't know about that - but not anything special

Rating: 6/10 (30 July 2000)

Mel's son's killed, Mel becomes all vengeful, runs about holding up the flag - "you can't kill me, I love the United States of America" type stuff (didn't he _SEE_ how bad The Postman was?) - cheesy stuff all round.
Some of it was very well done, without offering a spoiler the 'church scene' in particular, and there were some good and quite realistic special effects, particularly of the battles between Mel and the Redcoats, which got across the arrogance of the British that we only know too well from colonial times.
Worth watching, but I wouldn't bother again.