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The Patriot (2000)
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Aimed directly at a mainstream audience, The Patriot qualifies as respectable entertainment, but anyone expecting a definitive drama about the American Revolution should look elsewhere. Rising above the blatant crowd pleasing of Stargate, Independence Day, and Godzilla, director Roland Emmerich crafts a marvelous re-creation of South Carolina in the late 1770s (aided immeasurably by cinematographer Caleb Deschanel), and Robert Rodat's screenplay offers the same balance of epic scale and emotional urgency that elevated his earlier script for Saving Private Ryan. Unfortunately, Emmerich embraces...
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The Patriot Movie Review by Chris  (2/11/2008) |
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Saving Private Ryan had set a benchmark for future war films to come later, in the years that follow, The Patriot was released in 2001, 3 years after Saving Private Ryan was released. The Patrot is a war film directed by Roland Emmerich, the man who had released Independence Day in 1996. The Patrot is a carefully measured,...
(complete The Patriot review by Chris)
| The Patriot Movie Review by Jarrod (7/3/2007) |
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I wonder if The Patriot would have been better if Gibson directed it, and not Roland Emmerich, who did the atrocious Godzilla remake, but also the competent special effects extravaganza Independence Day, and the preposterous Day After Tomorrow.
Emmerich tries to make this as much of a spectacle as he can, and I think...
(complete The Patriot review by Jarrod)
There is a great old 1965 Jimmy Stewart movie called Shenandoah about a father that finds his family in the middle of the Civil War. The Patriot is basically the same story updated with a different war. They are both worth watching.
Mel Gibson plays the father (with a military past he is trying to forget) who is just...
(complete The Patriot review by B Movie Ben)
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