Historic inaccuracies .....

Rating: 10/10 (26 June 2001)

... are always a good reason for many people to bash an otherwise excellent movie. I have already encountered many examples of this practice here (U571, Saving private Ryan just to name a few). Fortunately, this sort of undue criticism can be easily seen through. Since it are always the people who find that their heritage is done injustice who write these sorts of reviews, they can easily be identified and "filtered out" through their location which they seem to be so proud of. Come on you Brits, are you really that narrow minded? Get a life! How do you think the Germans ought to feel about every other villain in a Hollywood production having a German accent? Luckily those poor guys have no clue because 99% of them only watch the German dubbed version in which the good guys speak German too. Belgians for instance are always pictured as a bunch of idiots: the rest of the world is made to believe that the only intelligent Belgian around is Hercule Poirot and he is so eccentric and ugly than no Belgian would want to be compared to him. Hey even Jean-Claude Van Damme is so embarrassed of being Belgian that he always plays a character from France or Canada to justify his accent.
Anyway, The Patriot is a really great movie which just has about everything to offer: Romance, action, drama, suspense and superb cinematography, but you have to take it for what it is: fiction, no more no less.
Please lads, If you really insist on seeing historically accurate things go watch documentaries instead but be very careful which ones you choose because the truth can hurt a whole lot more than fiction.