If only.......

Rating: 7/10 (10 November 2008)

In my own theories about the modern world of film-making, there are lots of obsessions with making films that contain depressing details of savagery and slaying and they can be very tricky that it isn't everyones' taste and it can be told better in documentary programmes. In the classic case of the film titled The Patriot, I can imagine it being in around the late 1770s prior to the fall of British control on the USA. There are lots of good features about the film and the times are well reconstructed here and they are very much like Yorktown and Williamsburg with the architects and this is what I particularly like about this film and it reminds me of my visit to these places. I think most of the characters on the silver screen are fictitious and the casting of Mel Gibson is quite good while Jason Isaacs is excellent as a brutal army commander having already starred in a mini series called Civvies. As already stated, there are weaknesses about the film and its plot along with some depressing battlefield scenes and some overacting but in fairness, it actually happened around that time.