Patriot - Good and Bad

Rating: Null/10 (5 November 2000)

The Patriot was entertaining due to the war scenes but, nevertheless, was one of the worst sentimental pieces of junk since The Postman. This was a textbook attempt to bring out raw emotions in the audience. It would take about 8 pages to list all of the terrible, sentimental techniques of the film. For one thing, the orchestral music was continuous throughout the movie. The villain was a one-sided static evil commander. The plot crudely tried to get its viewers emotionally opposed to this truly evil villain. It even seemed like the screen-writer (maybe director) tried to incorporate a wanna-be-intelligent theme ("sins of the past") but was not up to the task.
I am not a good judge of acting; maybe it was ok. I also am not sure of the movie's historical accuracy. Even if I were to give the movie the benefit of the doubt, its literary value would still rank somewhere among that of Hudson Hawk and Jaws 3. Watch the movie, enjoy the action scenes, but please don't think that it was a even somewhat decent movie.