Tom Berenger is a good actor, and the movie is generally well put together. But this is the ultimate in Politically Correct liberal "history", and as some reviewers have already written, it will indeed appeal to the political far-Left.
The San Patricios were deserters and traitors who deserved to be hanged as a group - and they were. And that is a well-known historical fact, not a spoiler. I don't care how badly they MAY have been treated by the U.S. Army; what they did was despicable and treason, and they killed many Americans while firing on the U.S. flag.
But beyond that, this film depicts the United States as The Great Satan, to borrow the Ayatollah Khomeini's description, while such Mexican massacres as in the recent Texas war at Goliad and the Alamo where prisoners were bayonetted, is never mentioned. Such is the one-sided nature of this polemical film.
As for the U.S. occupying Mexican territory, it may have been unjust, but was inevitable for the future growth of what would be a stable democracy with a prospering economy. It was best for the U.S. and best for the world. Or would one argue that having California and Arizona and the other states be today just another part of an overcrowded, corrupt, and poverty-stricken country filled with drug lords - instead of part of the United States - would have been a better result??
I even read a leftist reviewer use this film as an excuse to attack critics of the current massive Open Door immigration policy that is flooding America with the Third World poor. Anyone who could see the overcrowded and jammed public schools classrooms in New York City or Los Angeles would think differently.
As I said, a generally well made movie - except for the one-sided and anti-American plot. But America-hating leftists will LOVE it for that same reason.
The San Patricios were deserters and traitors who deserved to be hanged as a group - and they were. And that is a well-known historical fact, not a spoiler. I don't care how badly they MAY have been treated by the U.S. Army; what they did was despicable and treason, and they killed many Americans while firing on the U.S. flag.
But beyond that, this film depicts the United States as The Great Satan, to borrow the Ayatollah Khomeini's description, while such Mexican massacres as in the recent Texas war at Goliad and the Alamo where prisoners were bayonetted, is never mentioned. Such is the one-sided nature of this polemical film.
As for the U.S. occupying Mexican territory, it may have been unjust, but was inevitable for the future growth of what would be a stable democracy with a prospering economy. It was best for the U.S. and best for the world. Or would one argue that having California and Arizona and the other states be today just another part of an overcrowded, corrupt, and poverty-stricken country filled with drug lords - instead of part of the United States - would have been a better result??
I even read a leftist reviewer use this film as an excuse to attack critics of the current massive Open Door immigration policy that is flooding America with the Third World poor. Anyone who could see the overcrowded and jammed public schools classrooms in New York City or Los Angeles would think differently.
As I said, a generally well made movie - except for the one-sided and anti-American plot. But America-hating leftists will LOVE it for that same reason.