The Patriot: Critic Reviews

A gruesome hybrid, a mix of sentimentality and brutality that suggests a Lethal Weapon movie directed by Norman Rockwell.

A movie of cornball sentiment, humorously anachronistic dialogue, and expensive Colonial Williamsburg sets.

It's not being unpatriotic to wish for a better, more original movie.

Reflects our wish to redeem ourselves through sacrifice. But that entails more than briefly nodding to our flaws, magnifying what we like best about our past, and waving it around, hoping the euphoria will resolve any contradictions.

What makes The Patriot exhausting, despite its handful of blood-boiling sequences, is the way it numbingly resembles other movies.

The rules of summer movie-making wreck The Patriot.

Make no mistake about it: The Patriot is a cartoon, even if it does have real people playing the parts.

A grand yarn with a sense of the weight of history and an awareness that the winners are often those who have lost the most.

There's not much to get excited about.

Deserves a salute as the first Hollywood epic about the American Revolution to successfully blend ferocity and feeling.

Yet for its real virtues, The Patriot is never completely satisfying.

Many graphic battle scenes, not for all teens.

While his hero is conscience-stricken about killing, Emmerich sure enjoys serving it up in generous helpings.

A big-budget epic of the American Revolution, with Mel Gibson, of all people, leading the charge.

Bloody, overlong and straining for significance ...

It's the plot that's hackneyed.

Often melodramatic and manipulative but it is solid, involving filmmaking so one willingly takes the ride it offers.

The Patriot is best when it focuses on Gibson. Unfortunately, half the time it focuses on Ledger.

It's the best film ever made about the Revolutionary War.

The main irony, of course, lies in the film's title, which suggests that the absurdly flag-waving activist should be taken at face value despite the ample evidence that defending his country is the last thing on his mind.

It's a spectacular, well-made epic that I just could not enjoy -- at least not after the first hour.

It's near sadistic how the film has him going though so much tragedy and self-questioning, but Gibson delivers emotionally.

Emmerich's battle scenes may look authentic to anyone who has ever stared hard at a history book, but in every other way the film is long, empty and bogus.

By the time Martin begins waving around a gigantic American flag to rally his supporters for one last clash, the film has become so mechanical and jingoistic you might just as well be watching "Declaration of Independence Day."

La pelicula esta muy bien realizada, pero, por desgracia esta realizada al mas puro estilo Hollywood.