Highly fictionalized for the masses.

Rating: 5/10 (22 March 2002)

Great production values BUT not true history. Fine acting on all accounts with special kudos to Jason Isaacs as Col. William Tavington. Tavingington's character was loosley based on 26 year old Lt.Col. Banastre Tarleton. Tarleton was brutal in killing prisoners BUT never shot children or burned people in a church. He was repremanded by Lord Cornwallis for "un-Christian barbarity." He was defeated at Cowpens. He returned to Liverpool, England and served in parliament. He wrote a book about the accounts of his battles in America. RE