Though it feels ~often melodramatic & at-times counterfeited, The Patriot is a blockbusteresque, epic-scale reconceptualization of the war that changed the world – with historically-accurate & visceral blood-soaked action scenes, period elegance, and emotional deliverance performances. 7.9/10.

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Plot Synopsis: A widowed farmer, with a brave but brutal military past, decides not to join up when the British arrive in 1776. However, when his son enlists and is later captured by the enemy, the former soldier must abandon his new-found pacifist principles in order to rescue his oldest child, and forms a regiment of Carolina patriots, whose guerrilla tactics prove pivotal to the US war effort.

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