Waaaay overrated; why do you think Harrison Ford turned this down?

Rating: 3/10 (13 August 2017)

"The Patriot" is hardly a "patriot". Even director Roland Emmerich admitted that the title doesn't make sense in correlation with the storyline since "the patriot" is actually the least patriotic of everyone around him. He's the only one of the rebels who doesn't have any interest in fighting, being too much of a family man. Harrison called the storyline, when offered the lead role, some type of "melodrama about one man's revenge". It focuses too much on Benjamin Martin's personal revenge instead of the war as a WHOLE. Also, at the part where Tavington takes Gabriel prisoner to have him hanged, he never explains to Benjamin what "the rules of war" are. When he asks him if he'd like a lesson about them, all that comes of it is Benjamin telling him that "no lesson is necessary."