Blatant historical revisionism (again).

Rating: Null/10 (29 March 2001)

Once again, Hollywood changes history to make the good old USA come out on top. It first happened with objective Burma, with US paratroops dropped behind enemy lines in the jungle, but in reality it was the British army who won the Burma campaign. U-571 swaps the Royal navy for the US navy. Braveheart, the Patriot, Saving Private Ryan, Michael Collins, and even Titanic all change the facts, to either make Brits the villains, or replacing real British heroics with ficticios American ones. And now I hear Miramax is planning a remake of 'THE COLDITZ STORY.' Reality - British escapees 109, US escapees 0. No doubt in the film the Americans will be escaping left right and center, while the cold hearted emotionally repressed Brits inform the German guards. You can't help but think that there is some hidden agenda at work here, maybe its because after the genocide of 12 million native American indians, and continuing slavery 30 years after Britain abolished, America is trying to project its historical guilt onto someone else?