lots of action, lots of mel Gibson crying, not realistic or anything

Rating: 3/10 (5 March 2016)

It's one of those films which plays big on the American theme of the well spoken English person being evil and the all American heroes saving the day. It's completely unrealistic in rewriting history and portraying a kind of ridiculous image which really only patriotic Americans would want to get behind I imagine. It's almost like a propaganda film. I found myself thinking "wow mel Gibson cries A LOT" during this film and I started getting bored with how many times he was crying, I'm not sure but if you edited out all other parts of the film maybe you could make a 10- 15 minute film of mel Gibson crying, it kind of started annoying me after a while. There is a lot of action in the film but for me personally it's also kind of senseless, I'd prefer to see things more realistic, such as the film being more historically accurate in many ways including the storyline (politics, reasons for the war, whats actually happening in the war etc), the actors (the way they look and things they do etc) and many other ways. It's a film which could be based on anything and it just so happens to be based in the American war for independence, but the basic plot is "evil and more powerful people are defeated by plucky and smarter fighters, showdown with most hated bad guy, with violence some bad things happening which the bad guys do and good guys crying in between." I think those words were the initial story plan lol.