The Brits Have a Right to be Upset

I'm American, and even American historians admit this movie is highly historically inaccurate. So your not entirely wrong to be upset. Personally, I think this movie's purpose is to make Americans feel a warm, patriotic sensation inside when they watch it, not necessarily to tell the history of the war accurately.

First and foremost, it's a movie. A work of fiction.

It's comical that overly-sensitive modern day Brits can get so butthurt over being portrayed as imperial tyrants in period films. When in fact for a great part of English history, that's exactly what they were. Accept it, in a great many stories from history, when told from the perspective of the opposition, the British are the villains. Period. When the story of the American revolution is told from the American perspective, the British are the villains. It's called "perspective", get some.

Americans have a right to be upset over how badly this movie was made. It was basically Braveheart with 18th century guns, and just about as inaccurate.

Wow, this post is filled with hostile whiny little bitches, Brits and Americans. Honestly, insulting people based on their nationality is rather pathetic.

I would never have accepted this movie as being a doc on the Rev War. In Star Wars we have Good Guys v Bad Guys, in The Patriot, we have the same. Whether this actually happened doesn't matter. It's just a fanciful story.