- Film Review
- Reviewed By Tom Hutchinson
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3 out of 5
What has Mel Gibson got against the English? Five years after his Scottish epic Braveheart, he repeats his anti-English stance in this action drama, set during the American War of Independence. Mel plays Benjamin Martin, a farmer living peacefully in South Carolina who, along with his gung-ho son Gabriel (Heath Ledger), comes out fighting against the British army. The battle scenes are ferociously well staged, but some may baulk at the almost pantomimic villainy of Jason Isaacs's cruel Colonel Tavington and the historically inaccurate atrocities that he is seen to commit.
Plot Summary
Period war drama starring Mel Gibson as a widower and committed pacifist, who is reluctantly dragged into the American War of Independence after one of his sons falls victim to a sadistic British colonel.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Benjamin Martin
- Mel Gibson
- Gabriel Martin
- Heath Ledger
- Charlotte Selton
- Joely Richardson
- Major Jean Villeneuve
- Tcheky Karyo
- Colonel William Tavington
- Jason Isaacs
- General Cornwallis
- Tom Wilkinson
- Colonel Harry Burwell
- Chris Cooper
- Anne Howard
- Lisa Brenner
Crew
- Director
- Roland Emmerich
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