Title: Not Worth Much
Product review: Combine the sacarine of Little House on the Prarie with the bravado of Braveheart and you get the Patriot. Manipulative, lacking character development, it results in a big 'who cares?' Compared to work like Glory or Gettysburg, this is totally forgettable. Gibson's stilted portrail of 'Braveheart meets the British' is astonishingly poor...I don't for a minute believe in his limited romantic interests. John Williams' worst music score in years does not help (he really has no clue how to write for the battle scenes in this film); it should win an award for the ultimate in pretentious, clueless scoring. They could easily have removed an hour of boredom from the film, which remarkably builds up to nothing at the end.
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