Independence Day 2025 coincides with the 25th anniversary of “The Patriot,” Mel Gibson’s drama about the Revolutionary War. Fixed in time, and enjoying cult status, it holds up in all its violent, red ...

So The Patriot turns on the odd spectacle of a filmmaker clumsily imitating an already-clumsy movie in front of its maker, Emmerich doing his best to cover the Mel Gibson ahistorical-atrocity epic ...