An Honest Review

Rating: 2/10 (26 March 2017)

I get where Roland Emmerich was coming from on this. I mean he does make a living out of making horrible science fiction action flicks. Well, "Stargate" and "ID4" were good so they weren't ALL horrible...just mostly horrible.
But this was a war movie. This was a war movie written by the same guy that wrote "Saving Private Ryan." So you get disappointed when the movie is turned into one man's quest for revenge.
I work in history and the American Revolution--true or false--is best taught when it's presented as a revolution of and for lofty Enlightenment ideals. There is a lot to work with there that could make the movie deep and dramatic and....awesome.
Instead you have the revolution presented as one man's quest for revenge.
Why did America win? Why did we break free of England? Why didn't the world's largest empire flatten us? Was it because our ideals were better? Was it because Washington realized that all he needed to do was field an army and attrition and economics would win the war for him? Nope...it was because King George p!$$ed off the wrong man.
The American Revolution transformed into a mindless plot less action flick, and not even a very good one.
If I want a mindless Mel Gibson Action Movie, there are literally a ton of really good ones that are super entertaining. Despite the hate on him for being a racist Mel is an entertaining actor.
Why would I want to sit through an Emmerich version of the Revolution? Well, honestly, because I didn't pay attention to who directed it until it was too late and I was in the theater.
Stay away. It fails as both a War movie and an action movie.