The Patriot (Extended Cut) [Blu-ray]

The Patriot (Extended Cut) [Blu-ray]
by Roland Emmerich

The Patriot (Extended Cut) [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Chris Cooper, Heath Ledger, Jason Isaacs, Joely Richardson, Mel Gibson
Director: Roland Emmerich
Brand: GIBSON,MEL
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Czech (Original Language); Polish (Original Language); Czech (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Czech (Dubbed); French (Dubbed); German (Dubbed)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 174 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-03
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Columbia Pictures

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Movie Review: Formula plot, but well played and acted.
Summary: 4 Stars

The plot of PATRIOT follows the formula of the reluctant warrior who is forced to fight by circumstances--see SHENANDOAH and others. True to the formula, once he enters the war, he is unstoppable. Even though it is strictly a formula plot, Mel Gibson and an excellent cast pull it off. Heath Ledger is excellent as the son who must fight despite his father's warning, and Jason Isaacs is wonderfully mean as the brutal British officer.

Summary of The Patriot (Extended Cut) [Blu-ray]

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?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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Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-JUL-2007
Media Type: Blu-Ray
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