Lies

Rating: 1/10 (14 May 2005)

British redcoats did not burn a church full of American civilians during the US war of independence as depicted in "The Patriot", there is not a shred of historical evidence to support this, so you have told a disgraceful lie.
By contrast German Nazi troops in Europe during WW2 did on many well documented occasions herd civilians into churches, barns, etc. and burn them alive. The harrowing film "Come and See", made by Russian director Elem Klimov in 1985 to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of WW2, depicted this honestly.
Mel Gibson and Roland Emmerich, why is it that a Russian film director working during Soviet times was able to address the historical truth, but in your Patriot movie aimed at the American public, made in 2000, you made a travesty of historical truth? You should withdraw the Patriot from circulation you liars.