A Story That Should Be Told.

Rating: Null/10 (22 May 2001)

The American War of Independence is a story worthy of telling. A people wrest a nation from the world's greatest military power. Simple people wanting to decide their own destiny. A great story. Then there's the Patriot. This is the story? This is what happened? Sure war is hell. People get killed, sometimes innocent people. Good people do bad things and vice-versa. I think the Nazis had a lock on herding women and children into churches and setting them on fire. Doesn't seem British to me. Happy slaves saying all men are all of a sudden created equal ignores that a hundred years after the Patriot, battlefields would be in vogue again without any evil foreigners. And a hundred years after that there would be finally the civil rights movement. Can't someone tell this story with a little factual content? It would be a great story. The birth of a nation has to be dramatic. Not melodramatic.
Oh and while your at it, why not make a movie about the War of 1812: where we Canadians kicked American butt?