What a brilliant film,well acted and true to history...errmmm

Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2002)

Is this film a comedy,i dont think it was meant to be but i found it extremely funny. 18 nasty but well trained british red coats walking through some woods,the hero ben martin watching closely as they march past,he cant take them on his own.But its alright hes got his two 8 year old sons by his side.....we all know what happens next.This stupid,unrealistic scene sums up this movie,TOTAL CRAP!. The action and battle scenes are the only things that dont stink about this movie.i remember joking to a friend before i watched it,that it would probanly be an american(sorry i mean hollywood) version of history and portray the english as evil b@@@@@ds,i DIDNT want to be proved right,i wanted to see a good movie about a period of history that i have an interest in. I am english and i can accept(as all english people have) that the patriots gave us limeys a butt kicking and with a lot of help from other european nations(notably france)or not,you still beat us and thats what matters.But what does bother me and what does matter is how hollywood constantly alters history to sell movies,you won the war,why lie about it???,you dont need to lie about this,make a film about this subject and keep to the facts and there will always be one ending to this film,an american victory.Is this not good enough? wont this please an american audience? Another thing,what do african americans think of this film? This film pathetically trys to show the patriots as being good to there slaves and giving them there freedom,well since the patriots won the war why werent all slaves freed immiedatly? they werent freed, and it was about 80 years later and at the cost of about 700000 americans,when the slaves finnally got there freedom. If you liked this film for its action scenes or even maybe for its plot.Then thats fine,but there is not one person with a brain on this planet than can like this film for how it has depicted history.
Heres a few things that i found 'strange' about this film:
1.why are there no scotish welsch or irish troops fighting alongside the english,why are there no highlanders ,no bagpipers??? and why is there only 1 loyalist fighting for the british? 2.British soldiers burning women and children??WAH?really? 3.The patriots seem to kill loads of english soldiers and lose hardly anymen themselves,if so,then why,according to offcial figures did the British(and hessian mercanaries) lose about 10000 killed and the Patriots(and allies) lose about 25000 killed. The list could go on for ever. The fact is ,is that this film is Rubbish and should be avoided at all costs. oh yeah,the people who liked this film seem to defend it by saying that the only people who dont like it are sore loser brits,well i see more people from europe and america!(glad to see) slating this film,than i do british.