Don't waste 3 hours of your life!

Rating: 1/10 (4 August 2000)

It's not the anti-english sentiment that annoys me, I'm welsh I could teach Mel Gibson a thing or two about it. What I found far more insulting was the PC treatment of the black characters. A South Carolina land owner having freed his slaves in 1776? I think not! 1876 maybe just about. This major annoyance only served to make an appallingly cliched piece of tripe even more unwatchable than it already was. Technically it's not bad, the settings are excellent the camera work and directing adequate. I've seen worse acting although I have seen an awful lot better as well. No what ruins this film is it's holier than thou cliched dialogue. Sadly it's very rare for a good script to come out of Hollywood these days. Sadder still is the fact that there is no 0 score on IMDB. The Patriot doesn't even deserve to score that highly. Rent Glory instead, ok so it's a civil war movie but the battles (the only good bit in the Patriot) are as good, the script is much better and it might just give you a better idea about how blacks were treated by the USA about 100 years later.