A corny epic but entertaining.

Rating: 6/10 (24 October 2000)

Those who can abandon their sense of logic and knowledge of history may become sufficiently absorbed in this wannabee epic about American revolutionary freedom fighters to endure its 160 minute run time. "The Patriot" is a formula flick where the good are very good and the bad are very bad and no one ever has to reload. Melodramatic, historically inaccurate, improbable, contrived, but, nonetheless, entertaining.