It fulfilled its purpose

Rating: Null/10 (8 July 2000)

I don't know about the rest of you, but the reason I go to see a movie is to be entertained. Some of the comments I've read about this movie criticize it because it is not historically accurate. But as far as I remember the movie did a pretty good job of portraying the Revolutionary War without focusing on the heroes that are commonly associated with it. The real heroes are the men who died in the war, fighting for their beliefs. And this movie focuses on the people who fought who were common soldiers and did not go down in history as war heroes.
Some of you people are too picky. When I go to a movie, I do not sit there and think of everything that is wrong with it. I try to have an open mind in order to enjoy the movie more. Besides it focuses on one man and his family, and just because there were very few black people in it does not mean that the movie as a whole is not acknowledging the important part that black people did play in the war. It shows what a father would do to protect his family. And (spoiler?)his past makes the character 3-dimensional with all the right emotions to prove that people do not emerge from war without losing something. Most of the characters are fictitious yet do a great job of representing the people and beliefs of that time period.
The purpose of a movie is to entertain the audience who goes to see it. And for the most part,it fulfilled that purpose. It also showed the struggle to create this country and the men who died for that cause. It should make every American proud that they live in this country and remember all the people who died to make it what it is today. The movie is in know way absolutely perfect, but it did its job and is a tribute to the soldiers of the Revolutionary War, considering there are very few movies focused on that particular war.