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90This bloody celebration finally gives the American Revolution the epic it deserves.
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90A thunderous spectacle.
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80Sentimental, overbearing, flag-waving--and a crowd-pleaser.
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80It has everything you want in an epic: sweep, scope, wild reversals of fortune and plenty of bold, basic emotions.
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80Doesn't try too hard to be anything other than a vicarious experience that makes you crave the satisfaction you know you'll get when the hero gets his revenge.
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75It is rousing and entertaining, and you get your money's worth.
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75What might have been a treat for history buffs and a refresher course for the rest of us turns into just another occasion to watch Gibson shoot guns, swing tomahawks, and wreak other kinds of havoc on enemies we've been primed to hate.
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75It's big, exciting, ambitious, and it makes you cry in all the right places.
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75If Emmerich had any sense, he would have ceded the direction of the battle scenes to his star.
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75Emmerich might have had a masterpiece, but he'll have to settle for what comes close to being a must-see movie today.
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75It's often corny, but it's never boring, and it'll sweep you up in its momentum if you give it a chance.
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75The best movie I've seen about the Revolutionary War.
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75Has a flag-waving dumbness at its core.
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70Only so much (pop)cornball tubthumping, a sweeping, occasionally stirring, always gorgeous bit of action-figure history.
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70There's no denying that Emmerich's film, though a good half hour too long, keeps us watching.
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70It's depressing that this first movie in years to dramatize the American Revolution has so little to do with the politics of secession and so much to do with pop-culture themes of vigilantism.
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70Has some emotional pull and isn't stuffy and dull.
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70Mostly, the movie is riveting, well-done fare -- the stuff of Hollywood epic adventure.
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67"We, the people" have never been big fans of movies about the American Revolutionary War. The Patriot, however, appears to be the movie that will break that historical jinx.
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67It's a death-wish revenge thriller posing as a lavishly pastoral historical epic.
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63As a whole, though, the movie is much less magnetic or believable than its star.
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63Far from the smart historical epic some might have expected, is just another feisty summer shoot-'em-up.
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63While the film contains some terrific, realistically bloody battle scenes, it has a distinctly Germanic feel, both in its epic heaviness and in the peculiar way it revises the history of the American Revolution.
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60Patriot reflects on nothing, except perhaps that the American Revolution was a golden opportunity for Mel Gibson to go postal.
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60Gibson's performance is robbed of his customary humor, and he flounders around in search of the character's core.
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60Shamelessly stirring, brandishing Mr. Gibson's anguished masculinity like a musket. It may be effective, but you leave the theater feeling used.
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50The film is long, empty and bogus.
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50The Patriot makes the Revolutionary War look like super-produced studio footage of the L.A. riots.
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50Undeniably handsome..., but no cliché is left unturned, right down to the spray of toy soldiers falling from the hand of a dead child. Everything old isn't new again.
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Seems likely to stir rebuttal from historians, especially those on the other side of the pond.
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50A movie of cornball sentiment, humorously anachronistic dialogue, and expensive Colonial Williamsburg sets.
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50Trots out more flag-waving wartime cliches than any movie since John Wayne's "The Alamo."
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50Does benefit from Gibson's charisma...Whether it is quite good enough is another question.
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44Whatever extraordinary ingredients are necessary to fashion a 1776 home run, this movie doesn't have them.
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38Overblown sanctimony and sentimentalism as corny as the Fourth of July.
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JonA1
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The cast is solid through out, There is a ton of solid action as well, and the plot is decent but could have been a lot better. I enjoyed watching it.