ID4 meets Braveheart 2

Rating: 3/10 (29 June 2000)

This movie is a real joke. How come Mel Gibson, for whom I have a lot of respect, could have been involved is such terrible movie. Actually I didn't expect much from the director of Godzilla and the forgettable ID4. However I had to admit that this movie is so bad, so patriotic, that I was wondering why I spent close to 10$ to see mean, very mean English, doing bad thing to the good, very good, so good Americans! Hey, give me a break! It wasn't that black and white! Also, I didn't know that in the 18th century, the Americans already had their Rambo, who is capable to kill 20 English soldiers, with the help of his two young sons (8 and 10 years old). I didn't know that because of him, during a battle, he turned a defeat into a victory, which eventually will be the turning point of the revolution war. The sequence where he holds the American flag is laughable. At the end, I was expecting that Benjamin Martin would yell "Freedom" before dying! Don't worry, I didn't reveal any punch. This movie sucks. Some parts are good, but the number of "clichÃ©s" and the total lack of subtlety make this movie a real joke. Sometimes I wonder if Roland Emmerich, the director, thinks his audience is stupid.