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The Patriot (1998) is a English movie. Dean Semler has directed this movie. Steven Seagal,L.Q. Jones,Gailard Sartain,Silas Weir Mitchell are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1998. The Patriot (1998) is considered one of the best Action,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
Doctor Wesley McClaren is an immunologist in Ennis, Montana, and he has turned down an offer to join his friend Richard Bach, who lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and is the head of a unit called the Biological Response Team (BRT). Wesley and his daughter Holly live on a farm in Ennis, and a farmhand named Frank lives with them. Just over the hill from the farm, a 52 day standoff against militia leader Floyd Chisolm has ended. Floyd has decided to be his own attorney in court. Everyone is shocked when Floyd spits on Judge Tomkins. After the hearing, Tomkins starts feeling sick. Holly, like she always does, stops at Wesley's office after school so she can go home with Wesley. On their way home, Wesley gets a call on his mobile phone. Wesley rushes to the hospital with Holly and tells her to wait in the doctors' lounge, then Wesley is taken to see Tomkins, who looks awful. Wesley is told that Tomkins collapsed in his chambers at the court building. Wesley sees a cop collapse, while Tomkins ...
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The Patriot (1998) Reviews
Sets the field of immunology back 500 years...
Okay, okay, I'll grant that this is NOT a Steven Seagal action movie. That's fine. Seagal's action movies are no great shakes anyway. This is instead a virus-outbreak scientific drama. Fine. Trouble is, the level of science in this movie is about second-grade or less. The disease is something viral. A character announces early in the movie, as the outbreak begins, that people are going to start dying in 1-2 days. However, many days go by and many characters are exposed to the virus, but the only ones who actually die are the ones that the script needs to die to show that several different experimental cures didn't work. A character says this particular virus is 10 times as lethal as anthrax. With the mortality rate in this movie, if anthrax is one-tenth as lethal, anthrax must be about as awful as a sneezing fit. "Universal precautions" is the term that describes how health care workers prevent the spread of disease between patients (and to the workers themselves). It means that ALL patients are considered to be contagious. So health care workers wear gloves when touching all patients and change between patients, and masks when anything might be in the air, and eye protectors when they might be splashed, etc. In "The Patriot", the government anti-viral team wears moonsuits from "Outbreak", while every other character takes ZERO precautions. Doctors don't wear gloves to handle patients with bloody vomit all over themselves. Nurses don't wear masks around patients with hacking coughs. Dumb, dumb, dumb...
Finally, Seagal going straight-to-video, where he belongs.
1/2 out of **** The Patriot harkens back to the good old days of Steven Seagal's preachiness, and in this latest outing of his, I think it's arguable we may have come across his worst movie yet (keep in mind, I have not seen The Foreigner or Half Past Dead). Bear in mind, worst may be negligible in comparison to the rest of his filmography, but this one just about edges out the rest. The premise is pretty simple; Seagal is Wesley McClaren, a small town doctor who's concerned over the spread of a recent epidemic that's killing the town's population at a rapid rate. The military have the place quarantined, but are unaware that the outbreak was caused by a militia group led by Floyd Chisolm (Gailard Sartain). Anyway, Chisolm himself is infected, but can't find the cure, so he takes over the town, and discovers someone who's immune, and (gasp!), it's McClaren's own daughter! Naturally, McClaren doesn't take kindly to Chisolm's men putting their hands on her, so a slugfest will ensue. As of now, The Patriot is probably the most incompetently written script for a Seagal film, and that alone says quite a bit. The basic premise holds a kernel of interest, but it's riddled with baffling writing. Let me get this straight, Chisolm started the infection because he can't stand the government, meaning to cause an epidemic that will devastate the population. He allowed himself to be infected because he has the cure, but it turns out this cure only slows the virus down. When he discovers this little factoid, he and his men decide to shoot down the military occupying the small town so they can take the government manufactured cure (which turns out not to be any different than their own). What?! If he believed the military had a cure the whole time, why'd he even bother spreading the infection in the first place, and in such a desolate area, where infection would hardly cause that much a ruckus. That's just the beginning of the story's flaws. When it's stated that only McClaren's daughter isn't infected, they never bother to check the father for any signs of antibodies. Also visually noticeable is the fact that McClaren is not even the slightest bit sick, which he himself fails to note as an oddity. (From here on out, I plan to give out spoilers). Anyway, it turns out certain flowers are the cure for the disease, which explains why McClaren's daughter and his Native American father-in-law are never sick, because they're around these petals all the time. It's at this point the movie goes preachy on us, trying to force feed us a ham-fisted theme about how all of modern technology can't find a cure when a simple Native American remedy can. Seagal even says that it "took an old Blackfoot Indian to figure it out," which is actually incorrect, considering that the cure was accidentally discovered and that the Native American father-in-law didn't actually figure it out himself. To also suddenly deny the miracles of technology is pretty stupid, given that the modern world HAS discovered many cures for what were previously considered incurable illnesses. These inconsistencies could be partially forgiven if the movie was in any way thrilling or exciting, but this is among the most boring action films in recent memory. The fight scenes are typical Seagal, meaning nobody lays so much as a finger on him and the fights last no more than a few seconds. Several action sequences lack credibility, the most obvious one being how the militia group could actually take over a town guarded by highly trained U.S. military. Usually, most action movies try to end with a bang, to conclude with an all-out action setpiece. The Patriot does not, as it wraps things up with a shootout that lasts less than a minute. This film was a thirty-five million dollar production, where did all the money go? Certainly not in the action or the sets, which all look standard and sometimes rather cheap. Comparing this to recent, less expensive top-notch action films such as Equilibrium and The Transporter, The Patriot looks like a complete waste of cash based on visuals alone. But there's a story here, too, and it drags this abysmal movie down even further.
Amazingly Ridiculous
"The Patriot" staring Steven Segal is a late 90's thriller/action movie that is not really a thriller and not really an action movie; rather it is Steven Segal playing Steven Segal by another name, but this time he is a Native American country doctor who kicks butt every now an again. Baring the obvious plot line holes, the movie itself is absolutely amazing in terms of the blatant disregard for character devolvement. From a marketing standpoint, I was left asking myself, "who in the world were they aiming at?" The bio-thriller plot-line is way off the mark for the middle America crowd and Segal as silk cowboy would never sell to anyone even if you deep fried him and put him between a kripsy-cream donut. The whole movie is just way out there, even for Segal fans, because it simply does not deliver on any level.
Steven Seagal has proven he can act
There are only three movies that have shown Steven Seagal can act and this is one of them. Along with "Fire Down Below," and "The Glimmer Man" Seagal has shown he has talent. Though there is not that much action, "The Patriot" is the best film because it means that the supporting cast along with Seagal must come together to pull off a winner. I enjoyed everything about this film from the plot, casting and pace of the movie. I was completely impressed by the performance of Camilia Belle who portrayed the daughter because she was a breath of fresh air to Hollywood even though she was in other films. This is worth everyone's attention because Steven Seagal has finally made a movie that is tolerable and can be watched in comfort with the knowledge that it will not be boring. I give "The Patriot" an 8 out of 10.
So boring I forgot that it even existed
The Patriot (nothing to do with the Mel Gibson film of the same name) came out Steven Seagal was still doing that 'saving the environment' thing in his movies. Which is fine. But it doesn't make for good action. When the plot(?) of this film finally kicked in I saw the twist(?) coming a mile off. Seagal's anti-warfare, care-for-mother-nature stance is not very subtle. For a film that was originally going to debut in the cinemas it is shot very much like a TV movie despite some wonderful shots of the country by Dean Semler, the photographer of Dances with Wolves. Steven Seagal does like 1 fight scene in the entire film and it's totally boring. As an action film it fails, as a drama it stinks, as an environmental message it's obvious. Avoid like Ebola crossed with plague.