Rocky the Rooster gets the Brits (The Patriot (DVD))

Member Name: JGimpFood

Product:	The Patriot (DVD)
Date:	22/08/00 (11 review reads)
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Advantages: Mel Gibson, if that floats your boat

Disadvantages: Overlong, uninvolving

Miles and miles of galloping slaughter, culminating in a ballet of death.

A long and somewhat turgid film, as some have already noted: Braveheart with muskets. The recent success of Chicken Run does nothing to help this film, as all I could hear was Rocky the Rooster urging his men on...

The film succeeds in expressing the senselessness of war, the mindlessness of the strategies employed and the suffering of the innocent. Since it fails to offer any human storylines (or at least any which are explored in any depth), the result, however is very unsatisfying, unless shallow Hollywood sentimentality appeals.

There are plenty of other films which deal with suffering, and many other do so in a way which is much more emotionally rewarding (example Last of the Mohicans)

Missing on all marks, this is only one for fans of Mel Gibson who want to see him in *anything*

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