Sentimental, patriotic and utterly ridiculous piece of crap

Rating: 3/10 (21 November 2001)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** A lot of US citizens may think that this is a great movie, but for most Europeans (including me) it's a piece of crap the like of which I haven't many times before.
Sure, the acting is great, everything looks authentic, the battle scenes are enjoyable etc. Unfortunately, those things alone don't make a good movie. There should also be a good and believable story.
This is where the patriot fails: it portrays the Americans as universally noble, fair, kind people who are even nice to their slaves and the English as utter nazis who shoot little children and burn innocent people alive. It's sentimental to the point where it makes me vomit (all of Mel Gibson's children get slaughtered one by one) and it contains the very questionable morale that there's nothing better then living in and dying for the United States.
Maybe Americans like this over-the-top, history-distorting tear-jerker but I found it to be utterly unrealistic and offensive