Title: Eh.
Product review: Everyone should see this movie... once. Its merits include: Heath Ledger showing good growth as an actor; Jason Isaacs as a supremely oily villain; and Tom Wilkinson playing a fairly noble Cornwallis to balance Mel's overblown and flagrantly inhuman brutality. Unfortunately, these fine points aren't enough to deserve watching this film ever again. The film has, at best, a tenuous sense of dramatic tension. The filmmakers attempted to remedy this by periodically slaying major characters. At best ineffective; at worst insulting. At times it seems that Emmerich is peddling some kind of distorted British propaganda by painting American revolutionaries as savages bent on bloodshed and revenge. So rent it; watch it. Enjoy the three good points it has (Ledger, Isaacs, and Wilkinson). Then, when one of this film's unreasonably fanatical followers asks you with bright-eyed enthusiasm, "Have you seen this?!" you can nod, smile, and walk away.
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