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Release Date: Jun 28, 2000; Rated: R; Length: 157 Minutes; Genres: Action/Adventure, Historical, Suspense, War; With: Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger See More
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The Patriot (Movie - 2000)B-
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Mel Gibson wears a buckskin vest and a landed-gentry ponytail, but make no mistake: He's playing a gladiator. As Benjamin Martin, a South Carolina widower with seven children who organizes a scruffy, underground rebel militia to fight the British, Gibson gets to inflict damage with just about every weapon available in 1776 -- musket, dagger, tomahawk. Directed by Roland Emmerich, The Patriot is a death-wish revenge thriller posing as a lavishly pastoral historical epic. The movie has some fierce and exciting moments, and it's held together by Gibson's haggard slow-burn charisma, but there's something at once canny and crudely demagogic about the way that it personalizes the bloody birth of a nation. B-
Posted Jul 14, 2000
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