Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Jeffrey Burton I give this film a 7.5 which I rounded up to 8 for the avalanche of negativity directed toward it. I remember the advertising for this movie and they made a big deal about Annie Lennox being in it. Then they rip you off with only one cameo early in the movie and then she's gone. They also plugged it as being more patriotic, by far, than the movie actually is. This is what they did in the States, anyway. As a result, they setup people's expectations knowing they wouldn't get fulfilled.Though this movie was produced in the 80's it is product of the 70's and totally lacks any of the U.S.A.! U.S.A.! fist pumping of the Reagan era. I think that had a lot to do with its reception. It also features none of the 'stars' of the revolution. No Washington, Jefferson, hell, not even Sam Adams.The feel of the movie is incredibly authentic and unapologetically gritty. It really presents what the war must have felt like to those who had it thrust upon them. It rivals 'Waterloo' and 'Barry Lyndon' for capturing the time period. The UK locations served the film very well. It's more of a study of war as phenomenon than story of heroes going to battle, though there is a great deal heroism in it. The story does get overly personal and pulls you at times far away from the film's titled subject matter but it's still a compelling story, which has many facets and has a satisfactory resolution.I don't know what people are talking about with Pacino's performance. For the most part it's so minimal and the emotion is conveyed so much by the action he could just as well been in a silent movie. Donald Sutherland is brilliant as the sadistic British officer and Natassja Kinski is charming as the Boston aristocrat turned Betsy Ross type patriot. All in all this is a good movie for American Revolution buffs.I think this film, like 'Heaven's Gate', needs to be reevaluated. It really deserves better than it's getting. While it will never be a movie that satisfies all people's tastes it is an incredible depiction of how the Revolutionary War effected the lives of the people swept up in it.

rusoviet I have never understood why this film is so mocked regardless of 'accents' used it is a decent attempt to depict the American Revolution from Howe's successful attack at Brooklyn Heights through Cornwallis' defeat at Yorktown.Pacino, Kinski et. al. give a good performance and regardless of the 'coincidence' of their successive meetings they also are separate enough to give strength to the film.Sutherland is very good as the Sgt. who abets his commanding officer's perversion rather than be court-martialed for disobeying an order - The point of that particular scene was the same it has been since the Tower Of Babel - morals are for the 'hoi polloi' - we the elite have no need of such.The opening defeat of Washington's army on Long Island is well done showing what a rabble the American rebels were in 1776 but just as 'Tom' grows from a coward to a man to respect the scenes of his 'epiphany' are telling as he has lost everything and now must find his and his son's way amidst events he wants nothing to do with so too the Continental Army slowly becomes a force to be reckoned with.The pivotal scene of Tom's rescue of his son and the subsequent rescue of he and his son are well staged. The final scene, the end of the war, where he separates from his son and his son's new found bride and one hears a black soldier asking about his 'rights' and being told to shut up - portent of another conflict 80 years hence (1781-1861).Enjoy this film and note the black humor as Tom is made to substitute as a 'fox' for the merriment of the English officer corp.

Leofwine_draca Al Pacino goes all angsty in this film version of the American War of Independence, a film surprisingly made by the Brits (surprising given the content of the storyline). REVOLUTION was bad enough to single-handedly destroy the British film industry in the late 1980s, and it only really got going again a decade later.Whichever way you look at it, this is dull stuff indeed. Pacino's heart clearly isn't in it, and he feels and sounds like a very boring Tony Montana here. Donald Sutherland plays a British villain, somewhat inexplicably, and watching him struggling with a Yorkshire accent of all things is one of the most embarrassing things I've seen in a movie.REVOLUTION's general look and feel is decent, and Norway makes a good stand-in for true American locales. But the battle scenes are cheap-looking and the storyline never really goes anywhere despite the lengthy running time. Everybody seems to be a bad guy and the performances are way over the top; take Richard O'Brien for example. The only fun I had from it was spotting the youthful British stars at the beginning of their careers (Dexter Fletcher, Robbie Coltrane, Sid Owen, etc.), otherwise this is boring stuff indeed.

rockcraft I have always considered this film a masterpiece and long have regretted that it was so lost on jaded American audiences. I was very pleased to hear that it was finally going to be released on DVD. I was very disturbed soon after however to hear that the director, Hugh Hudson, has decided to butcher his own film in this version by cutting the last ten minutes of the original. Notwithstanding that some, not me, believed the original ending was somewhat hokey, for me this long, traveling camera shot, a complex crowd scene, is one of the most amazing pieces of cinematography in the history of film. I can't recall a piece of film footage that is more memorable. I have tried to describe it to many friends over the years. That it has now been lost is heartbreaking. It does not even sound like they left it as an extra on the DVD.