What a great film ruined by

Rating: Null/10 (22 February 2002)

historical inaccuracies all the way through the film, it was worse than Braveheart and thats an achievement.Some of the scenes were just......infuriatingly stupid.Like when the Americans were in the whitehouse it was sunny, when the brits were in there it was snowy and cold( LOL! )Also Banastre Tarleton (Jason Isaacs) never killed any women or children, never burned churches with 60 people in them,it really did make the British look like nazis.Tarleton was a briliant soldier and was feared by American soldiers during the War and was a hero back in his hometown of Liverpool.The City of Liverpool demanded an apology after the film was released which was given by the makers. Many British Generals and British soldiers even refused to fight in the War of 1776 because they did not want to war against their 'brothers' so why would they burn and attack their 'brothers' ???? Another thing that made me laugh was the white soldier saying to the Black soldier 'its been a honour fighting with you' LOL LOL LOL .Were Americans not ashamed when they saw that part of the movie and the ending when it showed the black men and whites living together happily(LOL)Lets get something straight on this.Great Britain abolished slavery in 1807 , the US abolished slavery in 1865.Surely some americans would have seen something wrong with those scenes with the Whites and Blacks( i bet blacks americans would have) Other scenes that annoyed me,Mel gibson and his sons killing a column of British soldiers,why did the Americans even need an army they could have just sent families out in groups of 3 to kill the British.Also one that might even annoy the French when Martin(Gibson) says 'Our French allies finally arrived' The French helped the US to get revenge on the British and considerig that the US needed the French more than france needed the US, they can turn up when they want.I will not bother going into to Battle Scenes although they were very impressive.Why did the makers have to make the British look so evil and distort the truth?? Thats holywood its their job to do things like this, but please Americans if you want history read a book dont believe any of this bull****.