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  • Actors: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Chris Cooper
  • Directors: Roland Emmerich
  • Writers: Robert Rodat
  • Producers: Dean Devlin, Dionne McNeff, Gary Levinsohn, Mark Gordon, Michael Dahan
  • Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL
  • Language English, Hungarian
  • Subtitles: English, Hindi, Turkish, Danish, Icelandic, Bulgarian, Swedish, Hungarian, Polish, Arabic, Dutch, Finnish, Czech, Greek
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 8 Jan 2001
  • Run Time: 158 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000052259
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,739 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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 marvellous 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 clichés and hackneyed melodrama that a more gifted director would have avoided. Instead of attempting a truly great film about the most pivotal years of American history, Emmerich settles for a standard revenge plot with the Revolutionary War as an incidental backdrop. On those terms, the film is engrossing and sufficiently intelligent, especially when militia leader Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) cagily negotiates with British General Cornwallis (Tom Wilkinson) in one of the most rewarding scenes. For the most part, the story concerns Martin's anguished quest for revenge against ruthless redcoat Colonel Tavington (played with snide relish by Jason Isaacs), and the rise to manhood of Martin's eldest son, Gabriel (Heath Ledger), whose battlefield honour exceeds even that of his brutally volatile father. At its best, The Patriot conveys the horror of war among innocent civilians, and the epic battle scenes, while by no means masterful, are graphically intense and impressive. And although Ledger's love interest (Lisa Brenner) is too bland to register much emotion, the focus on family (which frequently relegates the war to background history) provides a suitable vehicle for Gibson, who matches his achievement in Braveheart with an effectively brooding performance. --Jeff Shannon


Special Features

2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
Hungarian
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English\Dolby Digital Surround Hungarian
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dolby Digital Surround
Animated Menus
Deleted Scene
Feature Length Commentary By Director And Producer
Filmographies
Stills Gallery
4 Featurettes The Art Of War The True Patriots Conceptual Art To Film Comparison Visual Effects
2 Trailers Teaser International
Scene Selections
Arabic\Bulgarian\Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Swedish\Turkish
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A grand old-fashioned epic, 10 Nov 2007
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Okay, I'm going to nail my colors to the mast here: not only do I like Roland Emmerich's The Patriot, but I also think it's also a damn good film, and not just because so many films about the Revolutionary War are so pitifully bad (Revolution, cough cough). While it is driven by the simplistic revenge motif that all American epics seem to need to stand a chance at the box-office, it does give a good sense of the slow progress of the war as it deteriorated from a `civilized' confrontation waged according to the rules of battle to an increasing vicious guerrilla war for survival. The battles are convincingly brutal and for perhaps the first time in a movie it shows how cannonballs were really used - not as explosives but to smash their way through the flesh and bone of the opposing ranks of soldiers.

Yes, it glosses over the real Swamp Fox's racism in favor of an idealized vision of racial harmony and it invents a church-burning incident redolent of old anti-Nazi propaganda films (revenge on Herr Director's part, perhaps?), but it's not quite as simplistic as that. For much of the first half Mel Gibson's character takes no prisoners himself, taking genuine pleasure in killing surrendering British troops until he persuaded to stop more for propaganda reasons than moral ones. Similarly, it points out that this was initially very much a civil war, with colonial settlers divided among themselves over where their loyalties lay (people tend to forget that rather than Americans vs. British, it was British vs. British at that time). Certainly history gets a better deal here than it did in Gibson's own Braveheart. And give it credit for at least not having Gibson stab the bad guy with Old Glory.

Don't use it as a history lesson by any means, though it's not quite the travesty outraged tabloids have implied, but as a lavish, old-fashioned epic, complete with a cast of thousands (even if many of them are digital), glorious widescreen photography and a fine score by John Williams. The theatrical cut boasts a good array of extras, with some featurettes and trailers that were not carried over to the extended cut that is also available.
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21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Historically Hysterical, But The Cavalry Save The Day!, 18 Nov 2005
By Silver Whistle (Scotland, UK) - See all my reviews
As the biographer of a Scots officer killed in the Southern Campaigns of the American War, and having visited one of the locations during filming in 1999, I can say this film is historically hysterical. The script is trite, every plot 'twist' more or less signposted in neon lights, and the white-washing (I use that word deliberately) of slavery and the attribution of WW2 SS atrocities to the British Legion despicable and morally irresponsible. The geography is a little odd and the chronology is off-beam (the British occupying Charleston in 1778 instead of 1780? The battle of Cowpens in October 1780, instead of Jan. '81? ). There's the usual confusion of referring to 'England' and 'the English' when 'Britain' and 'British' are meant, which really annoys the rest of us over here! Even the uniforms of the Legion (a Loyal American unit) have been changed from green to red with green facings so US audiences will know which side they're on! - exactly as happened in Alan Alda's comedy 'Sweet Liberty'! 'The Patriot' is a flag-waving farrago (literally - there's a lot of homing-in on flags and crosses, and a flag gets used in what I'd've thought the US would consider a most disrespectful way versus a hapless SFX horse!). It's deeply offensive to those of us whose families suffered at the hands of the real-life equivalent of the film's 'heroes'. It has also annoyed the fellow-citizens and family of the former Liverpool MP on whom the anti-hero is clearly meant to be based, who was by no means as bad as Rebel propaganda and the film portrayed... However, it gets 3 stars from me for the following: a) The cinematography is beautiful, as are the women's costumes (though Charlotte (Joely Richardson) doesn't dress like a widow!). b) It does have some thrilling cavalry charges. There's a lot of boring jingoistic schmaltz to wade through between the bits where the Dragoons turn up, but they make it worthwhile... Just listen for the hoof-beats! c) There's a cracking swashbuckler of a scene in a small-scale skirmish, with the young Dragoon Colonel Will Tavington (Jason Isaacs) getting stuck into the Rebs with sabre in one hand, pistol in the other. In the '1066 & All That' phrase, "extremely dashing in all directions", and looking very, erm... Byronic (hair down, shirt open)! (Why I went to see it *twice*!) 'The Patriot' will improve on being watched in a double-bill with Alan Alda's 'Sweet Liberty', which I know the crew were watching on video while they were making it! That film was truly prophetic!
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars three cheers for the british!, 19 Nov 2003
By D. L. Bloor (uk) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Patriot [VHS] (VHS Tape)
I steadfastly refused to watch this at the cinema, but another boring night on the t.v meant I ended up watching it. My thoughts...? This is a gulity pop-corn pleasure movie.
The plot neatly glosses over any factual history, and becomes a series of cliches e.g baddie kills good guy's kids, good guy just happens to be quite handy with a gun and an axe- and is overly-sentimental in terms of the family-focus.
Why am I giving it four stars? For the fact that depsite it's obvious flaws, 'The Patriot' is actually very entertaining. Gibson offers up a poignant lead character who has a few more layers- a dark past that keeps cropping up- and is believable in his grief at the loss of his sons.
But the film really gets an extra star for the scene stealing Jason Issac's performance as bad-guy Col. Tavington. Despite the somewhat one-dimensional nature of the character, the Colonel is played to sneering perfection. I couldn't help it, I ended up cheering on the bad guys severeal times.

This is nowhere near as bad as many of the critics made it out to be. Worth watching for evil brits alone.
Wow I'm proud to be a brit!

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