Movie Review
The Patriot
by Gary Johnson
It’s hard to know what to expect when the producer-director team of Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Godzilla) team with Saving Private Ryan scribe Robert Rodat--but perhaps The Patriot is exactly what you would expect. This film manages to constantly move back and forth from spectacular, choreographed battle-scenes to stark ruminations of the horrors of war--matched by gorey illustrations. (I’ll never look at a cannonball in the same way.)