Metacritic reviews

This bloody celebration finally gives the American Revolution the epic it deserves.

Emmerich might have had a masterpiece, but he'll have to settle for what comes close to being a must-see movie today.

It's often corny, but it's never boring, and it'll sweep you up in its momentum if you give it a chance.

The best movie I've seen about the Revolutionary War.

If Emmerich had any sense, he would have ceded the direction of the battle scenes to his star.

There's no denying that Emmerich's film, though a good half hour too long, keeps us watching.

While the film contains some terrific, realistically bloody battle scenes, it has a distinctly Germanic feel, both in its epic heaviness and in the peculiar way it revises the history of the American Revolution.

Undeniably handsome..., but no cliché is left unturned, right down to the spray of toy soldiers falling from the hand of a dead child. Everything old isn't new again.

Trots out more flag-waving wartime cliches than any movie since John Wayne's "The Alamo."

Does benefit from Gibson's charisma...Whether it is quite good enough is another question.