A movie every History Student should avoid.

Rating: Null/10 (3 July 2000)

When I read the summary of one comment for 'The Patriot' which said, A Movie Every History Student Should See, I nearly fell from my seat. This has to be one of the most historically inaccurate pieces of garbage I have ever seen. The Americans were heroes and the British were the Nazi's of that Era, what rubbish.
When I saw the burning of churches with people in them I wondered why they were not showing revolutionaries doing the same type of thing to people who supported the British troops, if anyone even thinks the revolutionaries did not take part in these types of slaughter then they are sorely mistaken.
I felt this movie portrayed every British soldier as being a cold hearted murderer when many of them were nothing but young men scared of dying just like the revolutionary soldiers where.
If people think that by sending their children to see this piece of garbage will teach them anything at all about the American Revolution and what it stood for than I truly pity them and the impression their kids will have of that era of history.
I am not British either and I think if I was I would have loathed this movie even more.
Avoid this film at all costs 0 out 4