Moral: don't annoy Mel Gibson

Rating: Null/10 (18 January 2002)

The only positive thing that I can say about this movie is that at least it will support Tom Wilkinson's future acting career. Hopefully he will find projects far more worthy of his talent.
What most US based critics appear to have overlooked is that the movie is equally insulting to the American Revolutionaries - a generation of Americans will now grow up believing that the Revolution was won only because the British made the fatal mistake of annoying Mel Gibson.
I would like to think that Jason Isaacs is sending the whole thing up with his 'Stupid boy!' line (anyone with a passing knowledge of British sitcoms will understand my reference).
One day someone will make a decent film about the Revolution. Unfortunately 'The Patriot' is a turkey of some magnitude.