What a disappointment

Rating: 2/10 (13 August 2000)

I was rather sceptical towards the movie before I saw it, and I really regretted seeing it afterwards. The movie starts out okay, but when the main character kills 20 professional English soldiers, only with the help of an old rifle (which shouldn´t be able to reload that fast), an axe and two crying kids - that really made me wanting to leave. Afterwards he was so covered in blood and looked very heroic in the annoying slow motion scenes as he chopped an Englishman to bits with the axe. I found it rather childish than deep in any way.
The Englishmen were mostly portrayed as idiots. They could not fight, they didn´t seem to have human feelings and they were led by a commander who made the monsters from Alien look friendly in comparison. That is simply quite ridiculous. England abandoned slavery some hundred years before USA, but that wasn´t so clear in the movie. Even the slaves who were "freed" by the English wouldn´t come.. they would rather protect their American master. I think the blacks were almost made fun of in this movie, and that disappoints me. Blacks living in London at the time, lived as free, equal human beeings, at least so said the law (as far as I know). But here they would rather stay and "build a new world" together with the Southern aristocracy... ha ha! What do the native Americans call George Washintgon? "Destroyer of cities" or something like that.. because of the numerous times they were backstabbed by different leaders, both English and American and had their families killed and homes destroyed, in a far worse manner than the Patriot lost his family in the film. What did we see of that in the movie? Nothing.. No no. all Americans are honest, upright people it seems. Blacks are dumb and pathetic, Englishmen are evil and arrogant, even though they have some sense of honour. Indians hardly exist, even.. that is the lesson of this very very annoying movie! It should almost be censored or labeled with a Parental Advisory sticker because of the crazy moral it spreads! Or at least have some kind of warning so that people are aware of the grave twisting of history that takes place in the movie. >And the fight scenes were awful as well. And the romantic drama of the movie were full of clichés. I hated it, really. Thanx