Absolute Rot!

Rating: Null/10 (8 January 2001)

Obviously,idiot Americans who belive everything they see on a screen will love this,(well-the white ones will,anyway...)but how can something so chock-full of grotesque historical inaccuracies be considered to have an "historical" basis?
Massacres and atrocities which never happened,the happiest slaves this side of Gone With The Wind,troop numbers doctored in order to portray the (truthfully,inept) British Army as some kind of unstoppable killing machine and the elevation of an appalling figure from American history to folk hero status are combined and given a CGI gloss as only the makers of Godzilla know how.
If you enjoyed this,I'm sure you'd just love U-571 (Yanks claim credit for a British naval operation) and Titanic (isn't it lucky that all the British on board just happened to either a)criminally inept,b)gutless swine or c)vicious thugs).
On second thoughts-you'd possibly just better stick to D W Griffiths' Birth of a Nation (the rise of the "heroic" KKK in the face of "evil" freed slaves)-it'd suit Patriot fans down to the ground.