Alicia I love this movie so much

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Matthew_Capitano Steve Seagal is not so much The Patriot as he is The Aintriot.Passable Seagal flick, though not as stark as his other films while this concomitantly classifies as the end of his relevant film career.Some of those Montana mountain cabin love-it-or-leave-it dudes decide to poison society to help push their agenda that America is corrupted and going the wrong way, down the wrong road, upside down..... whatever.Steve to the rescue. He plays a Ph.D. here (*snicker*). He loves horses, insects, and his sweet little daughter who we all know will be kidnapped, but of course he will rescue her and we will all get up and leave the theater before the final credits role....She is, he does, and we do.

Sandcooler It's almost unfathomable nowadays, but there used to be a magical time when Steven Seagal movies going straight to video was a big deal. Seagal was a highly bankable star throughout the 90s, his career seemed about as invulnerable as his characters were. In English: we all figured he could release just about anything and get a theatrical run. That's why "The Patriot" was so intriguing, how badly did he screw up on this one? Well, "The Patriot" is basically "On Deadly Ground" without the action, the funny bad dialogues and the Michael Caine. The villain of the movie is a deadly virus, a baddie with a very high tolerance for aikido. So Seagal barely fights at all, he just strolls around his lab trying to find a cure. Eventually his Native American (an obsession of Seagal's) assistant does the work for him and finds a cure, leading to a truly fantastic non-climax that consists of the highly trained, fully equipped army...picking flowers. Not making it up. "The Patriot" ought to get some credit because at least Seagal tried to expand his range a bit, but he's much too limited an actor to salvage a movie that's just talking heads for 90 minutes. And while saving the environment is a noble cause, the man really jammed it down our throats back in his heydays. A direct to video-release seems fair to me.

goldfish-9 Dr Steven Segal saves the world from a deadly virus outbreak. This movie strikes me as foolish earnestness that has morphed into an unintended camp classic (the best kind). Memorable lines include "Knowledge is like a deer. Chase it, and it will run away from you" and "Drink this. It will make you feel better." It is so sublimely bad -- they couldn't have made it any worse if they tried.Segal tries to convince you that he is 1. sensitive -- by saving a stricken pony; 2. a good father -- by a saccharine cooking scene for his daughter; 3. a man of science -- by looking at a fake spectrum; 4. in tune with nature -- by using homeopathic remedies; 5. politically correct and multicultural -- by having Indian friends; 6. an iconoclast -- by opening a rural practice after a former life in a national research lab; and 7. an action hero -- by being really fat but yet can still fight. ROTFL.It's good to see on as a late-night Saturday flick, with friends, preferably (but not necessarily!) inebriated.

patrickboyle-1 There are many movies made in which the producer, director or star inject their political or social beliefs. This is acceptable if:the movie is good - the message is minimally coherent - the method is artistic.Clearly The Patriot is thw worst "message" movie of all time. Indeed it is the worst "message" movie possible.In the last ten minutes or so of this film after our hero has kung fu-ed all the bad guys to death, he appears at a lectern and gives a face forward political speech - and what a speech it is.Steven Segal is a true whack job politically. He believes that the world is filled with conspirators who keep normal people from being prosperous, healthy and happy. These demons lurk everywhere and are behind all bad events.For example, Segal sneers to his American Indian audience that everyone knows that Big Oil has long suppressed the technology that allows automobiles to run on water. What!This assertion is not a simple goofy plot device like when Morpheus in the Matrix explains that the machines use people as batteries. Clearly the battery idea violates the laws of thermodynamics but we forgive him because some such device is needed to advance the story - sort of like warp drive in Star Trek.No. In the Patriot the final speech steps out of the movie plot altogether, and gives us a straight forward insight into the real Steven Segal world view. What we hear is unimaginably stupid. What is frightening is that it is delivered with such hatred and bitterness. We see before us the naked face of a dangerous fanatic.