Here’s No. 7 in BestEverBuzz’s Patriotic Movies July 4th countdown
In the No. 7 film of BestEverBuzz’s America’s Most Patriotic Movies July 4th countdown – The Patriot – Mel Gibson does for U.S. patriotism what his Braveheart did for love of country in Scotland.
BestEverBuzz continues its America’s Top 10 Patriotic Movies July 4th countdown, with two each day concluding on July Fourth.
We hope it stirs your own sense of patriotism, lights your July 4th fireworks and inspires you to see these movies in a new light – or maybe see them for the first time.
After the countdown, ending on the Fourth of July, we’ll reveal five more patriotic movies that barely missed the cut. Here are links to No. 10, to No. 9 and to No. 8.
Now, here’s what makes The Patriot No. 7 in BestEverBuzz’s Patriotic Movies July 4th countdown!
- The Patriot (2000)
In what could be called America’s Braveheart, Mel Gibson plays a war-weary, widowed American colonist reluctantly pushed into war against the British. While completely fictional and criticized for taking great historical license – as well as for its romanticizing of the Americans and demonizing of the British – The Patriot nonetheless presents a graphic, emotional sense of the dilemmas and dangers facing colonists in the Revolutionary War.
Had it been made decades earlier, The Patriot might have been more highly regarded, and perhaps higher on our list – but today’s sophisticated audiences understandably demand more authenticity and nuance.
Still, it’s as nakedly patriotic a movie as you’ll ever see. And it likely deserves higher marks than 62% from critics on RottenTomatoes.com — as evidenced by the audience score of 81%.
All that is why The Patriot is No. 7 on BestEverBuzz’s Most Patriotic Movies July 4th countdown.
