DVD : The Patriot (Special Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780767858465
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767858468
Label: Sony Pictures
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: COLD05731D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: October 24, 2000
Running Time: 165 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: June 28, 2000
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
When widower and war hero benjamin martin sees his family viciously attacked by red coats he can no longer avoid fighting in the revolutionary war. Toegether with his son he forms a militia to take up arms against the british and soon is embroiled in the redemption of revenge and the passion of love. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/27/2007 Starring: Mel Gibson Joely Richardson Run time: 165 minutes Rating: R Director: Roland Emmerich
Amazon.com:
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 marvelous 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 clich茅s 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 honor 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
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- The Patriot…
…Wherein a German filmmaker by the name of Roland Emerich makes a movie where evil British Redcoats commit a vile atrocity against American freedom fighters… an atrocity that in reality was perpetrated by German troops against French villagers in WWII. Nice one Roland. What are you going to do next - make a film where the British gas 12 million people in Auschwitz before the plucky German freedom fighters come to the rescue?
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- Thank You Mel Gibson
Amidst the steady stream of disgusting, vulgar, and /or western civilization-bashing crap that flows like a sewer from our Left Coast, we get a little reminder every once in awhile that the United States is not completely the Great Satan. We do have a redeeming quality or two. Thank God for a generation that didn’t bow the knee to British oppression and tyranny. (Anyone who thinks the British were righteous during that period probably also thinks that Islam is a religion of peace.) Today we are the … Read More
Rating: - Could it be time for another revolution
Excellent movie and acting, Story superb if you can overlook hollywood political correctness recreating history
Rating: - Never get tired of this one!
Always a late bloomer, I discover things after they’ve been out for a while - that’s just my way. I finally rented this flick and watched it the whole way through…and it’s great! I really loved it! There is alittle bit of everything in it - for men and women. There’s war, romance - and it keeps you interested the whole time. Trying to watch all of Heath Ledger’s work since his death - I’m so glad I saw this. This was definately Mel Gibson’s movie (and he was great too) but Heath held his own as Mel’s … Read More
Rating: - I Enjoyed It
I enjoyed this movie. I like Mel Gibson’s action movies. This falls into that category. It is not a comedy. I like the new young actor Heath Ledger who played his son. I think we will of him in the future. We don’t get many movies about the Revolutionary war and I enjoyed this one. Some of the scenes reminded me of THE LAST OF THE MOHEGANS especially the ambush scene in the forest. The final battle scene was very good. They don’t make movies like this anymore. We all liked it.
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