Who wrote the script? Twelve monkeys locked in a room?

Rating: 1/10 (5 November 2000)

"The Patriot", another piece of Hollywood c**p which audiences ate up. This is by far and away one of the worst movies I've seen in the last ten years. First off, why is it called "The Patriot"? Mel Gibson's character only fights because his son is killed, not because he wants to defend the land which he lives in. The protagonist is a typical one dimensional cold hearted guy with a British accent and that's about it. Speaking of the British, I don't have a problem with bending events/history to improve a story/themes, but Roland Emmerich just twisted facts so that the audience would hate the British and feel proud to be Americans every time Gibson shot one of them. The aspect of the movie which really left me scratching my head, besides the hokey story and terrible acting, was the end when everyone came back to rebuild Gibson's house. This must have been the most unrealistic part of the film. You better believe after the war these people would have been getting drunk and having sex, not building a house. I also thought that the ending depicted the soldiers as slaves or rather was a plug for Fascist government. Sure it put a tear and some people's eyes when they came back to build the house, but think about it, it's like they are tied to their master Gibson and can't break away from him; the end was like the slaves returning home out of the goodness of their hearts. This movie just confirms my theory that the USA is an anti-intellectual country.