The most pretentious lie about American history ever told

Rating: 1/10 (28 December 2004)

This film is possibly the most historically inaccurate film I have ever seen, and I've seen Braveheart. THe film had so many inaccuracies it would be hard to name them. What was most shocking was that in order to make us 'sympethise' for Benjamin Martin they changed many of his important character flaws, making it appear that he was just a normal kind hearted man who's only flaw was the inability to make rocking chairs. Another appalling flaw was how the entire film appears to be centred around the atrocities carried out by the British, when, the fact that Benjamin Martin butchered a tribe of Mohawk Indians, cut up their bodys and set the body parts back to the Indians families is little mentioned. Also its portrayal of General Cornwallis was despicable, it failed to mention that Cornwallis' wife died, an act that emotionally damaged him and it says that after loosing the war of independence he never recovered, this is a lie, he returned to England, sat in the house of lords for a while then he went to be the governor of India and successfully untangled the messy web of Indian politics. There are many other inaccuracies such as Heath ledgers talk about a new world where all men would be equal, this ignores the next 50 odd years of American history, and also the bit where Mel Gibson and his two sons kill an entire British platoon and Mel fights half of them with an axe seemed a TAD unrealistic to me! Anyway If you do have to see this film, make sure you don't pay, borrow it, because we wouldn't want any more money from his anti English films going Mr Gibsons fortune. What happened Mel? You used to be cool.