Benjamin knows less feeble ways to resist and is at long last drawn into the seemingly impossible conflict. If all this sounds like the beginnings of a children's movie, perhaps a reframing of adventures of Robin Hood, the facts will certainly bear that interpretation. There are episodes in this film one would expect from a children's TV show. One shot and they are dead. It is almost like knocking down nine-pins.
People are a lot harder to kill than that.
This is by far the nicer production but at heart I would put the two stories on a par with each other. The film is directed by Roland Emmerich and produced by him and Dean Devlin. While the plot is on a childish level, the script as a whole is somewhat better. Tavington, the blood enemy of Martin, sort of this films Sheriff of Nottingham, is totally ruthless with his enemy and is happy to slaughter any of the enemy who get in his way. It is nice to see someone saying that as a colonial power Britain had some scruples.