The Patriot = pretentious-americanized-Hollywoodish-crap = waste of time

Rating: 4/10 (14 June 2005)

The Patriot wasn't bad at the start but we really have to get the usual handful of slow motion scenes where brave, daring, kind hero Mel Gibson beats up a guy who killed his son, to then get up with a stupid determined exaggerated expression on his face and runs into a the middle of a battle with an American flag (cough). OK, so the action scenes are alright but that can't make up for the whole film.
Of course there's a really mean English baddie (oh it's an American film remember). The whole thing is nearly a joke, the French are ridiculous sterootypes and there isn't one good Enlgishman in the whole overlong boring film the Patriot (crap title) is.