Great War Epic

Rating: 9/10 (29 June 2000)

This is a great movie, up there with Saving Private Ryan in my opinion. This Revolutionary War piece provides the same human perspective as SPR did for WWII. It has some very graphic violence and while I did find it a bit overdone, it is depicting war and its gruesome realities.
This story portrays the British in a true light, hunting down families and the killing of innocent women and children. Many Americans are never taught in school about how the British hunted down the families of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, burned their homes down and in many cases killed everyone in the family. This movie shows that darker reality of the Revolutionary War.
The supporting cast is great, the battle scenes are very well done, and the score is a winner. I will see this movie several times this summer and I hope a lot of others do as well.