The copy of REVENGE OF THE PATRIOTS that I saw was made from a VHS copy replete with glitches. It was also matted (the top and bottom of the image cut off to simulate a widescreen format), but, because the image had already been panned and scanned, the result was abysmal. ("Matting" was also used to try to make the teleseries KUNG FU user friendly for the newer, widescreen flat screen televisions. There, too, something was lost in the translation: shots carefully composed for the square screen simply didn't fit the newer format.) Carter Wong has an all-too-brief part in which he goes down swinging, and there are some decent but not really great fight scenes scattered throughout, but the thing that sticks out most in my mind is the on-screen slaughter of a pig (shades of SOUTHERN COMFORT)... This is the kind of thing that takes you out of the movie and dumps you squarely back in The Real World- which is the very place you went to the movies to escape.
Review of Revenge of the Patriots
