A woefully inaccurate movie

Rating: Null/10 (13 July 2000)

Though the Patriot has good visuals and is full of emotions, I can't say I liked this movie. What annoyed me the most is the blatant rewriting of history we see in this movie to make it more pleasing for American audiences to watch. The two obvious cases of this are the treatment of the slavery matter and the incredible cruelty of the British soldiers.
In this time of slavery the black people are displayed as content and happy and apparently more than willing to work for their white masters without any sort of payment. Let me say bull****! Even worse is the treatment of British Soldiers in this movie. They are portrayed as evil sinister men who care more about killing innocents and committing massacres than actually fighting the war. One more than one occasion the director and writer seem to be trying to associate Nazi war crimes in France with the 18th century British Redcoats. One scene where hundreds of civilians are burned inside actually bears an eerie resemblance to an act carried out by the Waffen SS in the small French village of Oradour sur Glane where 600 civilians were locked up in a monastery which was then burned down. One must start to wonder if the director Roland Emmerich (who by the way is German) has some ulterior motive. The real historical fact is that the War of Independence was fought with distinction by both sides with no real tragedies taking place as depicted in this stupid movie.
I guess some people can get some pleasure out of watching this movie but it should never be branded as a historically accurate one.