Rolling Stone
"...THE PATRIOT has 'hit' written all over it..." 06/08/2000 p.134New York Times
"...Gibson shows an on-screen comfort and expansiveness he has not revealed before..." 06/28/2000 pp.E1-E6 USA Today
"...Viscerally historical....THE PATRIOT makes a big bang..." -- 3 out of 4 stars 06/28/2000 p.2D Sight and Sound
"...Spectacular battle scenes..." 09/01/2000 p.46-7 Premiere
"...Who can deny a movie that features enough bloody fights, burning houses, and grandiloquent speeches to fill three sequels to GONE WITH THE WIND?..." -- 3 out of 5 stars - A Satisfying Rental 12/01/2000 p.97 Rolling Stone
"...THE PATRIOT deserves a salute as the first Hollywood epic about the American Revolution to successfully blend ferocity and feeling..." 07/06/2000 p.145-6 Los Angeles Times
"...THE PATRIOT has a good sense of spectacle and is quite successful at re-creating a period that has not been brought to the screen with much success recently..." 06/28/2000 p.C1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...It is rousing and entertaining, and you get your money's worth....[Gibson gives] a powerful and effective performance..." 06/28/2000 p.209 Total Film
"...With some beautiful cinematography and a few strong doses of musket-blasting action..." 04/01/2001 p.108 Time Magazine 9 of 10
It has everything you want in an epic: sweep, scope, wild reversals of fortune and plenty of bold, basic emotions. It offers a stalwart hero and a sneering villain, bloody battles and daring rescues, tender love, heedless cruelty and, above all, scores of attractive human beings who have pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to a desperate but noble cause. What's not to like about The Patriot?... - Richard Schickel
Salon.com 8 of 10
Anchored by a gripping yet surprisingly vulnerable performance by Mel Gibson...The Patriot is majestic filmmaking... As a compelling and immensely detailed portrait of life and death in a vastly different America, and a wrenching depiction of early modern warfare at its cruelest, it provides the American Revolution with the epic film it has long deserved. - Andrew O'Hehir
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