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Mar 19, 2012Keogh rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
An entertaining enough yarn, if you can turn off the proverbial historian's cap and ignore the liberties with history. Gibson's character is a composite of several actual militia commanders, most notably one Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, who spent the war making life miserable for the British in the Carolinas. Isaac's character is a fictional variant on the British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton, who in fact survived the war and went on to become a member of Parliament in London (side note: Tarleton appears in the film Amazing Grace, where the actor Ciaran Hinds plays him). The timeline is somewhat skewed in the film between Camden and the Battle of Cowpens (essentially the final battle in the film, never actually called that), and it brings in two men who weren't actually at that battle- Cornwallis and Greene. One other odd thing: the younger kids never seem to age from beginning to end in the film, which spans the entire revolution. Are they smoking, thus stunting their growth?