"The Patriot" is billed as a Revolutionary War epic, but the 162-minute feature now playing at area theaters is mostly a lengthy version of a revenge movie. Mel Gibson stars as overly ...

It became the number one movie in Australia that year and deservedly so. The Patriot, an American movie released in 2000 again showed Mel Gibson embroiled in a war he didn’t want to fight.

Controversial actor Mel Gibson leads a controversial historical war epic in 2000s The Patriot, and its now available ...

In fact, it would be a mistake to think of "The Patriot" as a historical film. The movie doesn't deal with the issues of the war, and it only touches on its history. Think of it, rather ...