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The movie is great...not so sure the extra 10 is worth $15.
First of, The Patriot itself is a great movie with a captivating story...no doubt did it make an interesting story around the events of the revolutionary war (And a partly true story at that)...However, If you ALREADY have The Patriot on DVD...you probably don't want to pop $15 over for this. Why? At only 10 extra minutes (Some scenes are extended by a minute, some have a few seconds added here or there), it's not much of a leap. It's not like they took all of the deleted scenes from the actual first DVD and threw them in. But, if you have seen "The Patriot" before and want it on DVD...why not go for this? This is a nice edition to your collection. But if you already have The Patriot...it's best avoid this. As for me, I used to own the original, but lost it and stumbled across this, and figured "Why not". I'm happy to have it, but learned if I still had my original and bought this...I would be wondering why I did.

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The Patriot should be called "The Wussy"
We know from repeated allusions to a particularly horrific Indian Wars battle that Mel Gibson's character feels very badly about his involvement in that battle. He won't tell his kids and he refuses to accept any honor or mention from other citizens with regard to that time. <
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>He is essentially a pacifist now. Then one of his boys is murdered by British troops and he goes into a berserker rage. Well, heck yes! And the way he goes after his revenge is sweet! It is deserving and justified. <
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>Then he sort of wimps out. Oh sure, he had the fire and fury to murder all the troops who were taking orders to do the unjustified actions, but when he finally gets a chance to go after the commanding officer who actually and quite literally murdered his son (and subsequently murdered another son and many many others at his order), well ol' Mel's character seems to have wimped out. <
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>Why is this? Is it Mel's fault? Yeah, in part it is. He's more than a bankable star. He can greenlight films and he certainly has creative control over just about any picture he's involved with. So why didn't Gibson's character get sweet revenge against this British officer? Who the heck knows? <
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>I do know that the battle in which he kills that officer is less than fulfilling and certainly nothing less than a standard battle scene. <
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>I can assure you that if my sons were murdered and the wives and children of my friends were burned alive, I'd be living large with a murderous rage - and since this is the Revolutionary War, Gibson's character would have too. <
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>The film is well developed and over all, effective, but the climactic final scene is anything but climactic or satisfying. It's almost as if the film starts out with conviction and then by the end of the film, we are being fed some sort of PC crap that "we should take the higher ground and be humane". Well screw that! After almost two hours of this evil Brit torturing and murdering, he deserves far more justice than Gibson's character delivers with a quick sword blow. <
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>This calls for a Shakespearian ending and instead we get an ending just the other side of "touchy feely'. <
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>Annoying to say the least.

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Now with the cherry on top!!!!
My review for the original version of "The Patriot" can be found under its respective title. This review is merely for those who may already own the movie and are wondering if it's worth buying a second time around for an additional 10 minutes of footage. For those who have never bought this title, then I can say emphatically to choose this version. For those who already own it . . . well . . . I suppose you'll need to read on and decide. <
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>First of all (thank goodness), the extra 10 minutes of footage are not merely tacked on as "Deleted Scenes" at the end of the movie. In fact, it would be nearly impossible to do so since some of the extra footage is not found in separate scenes, but rather additional footage of already established scenes. In these situations, the extra footage may be as long as an additional minute or as little as a few seconds. How do I know? Well, for one, I'm a high school history teacher and show it every year during our unit on the Revolutionary War. Given that I teach five classes a day of the same subject, I'd say I've gotten quite familiar with the movie. <
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>Now, one particular extension of a scene is quite riveting in that Benjamin Martin's youngest children get their first taste of the horrors of war prior to the death of Thomas. This comes just before the evening when Gabriel stumbles home after being wounded in a nearby battle. Something (the viewer is unaware) catches the attention of the Martin children and they stride over to a nearby creek/river to investigate. What they discover are the bodies of several soldiers floating downstream. Martin then comes over and ushers the children back into the house. <
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>Another noteworthy scene extension is found in the "ambush" scene following the death of Thomas--you know, the famous "aim small, miss small" scene. Well, in the original edited version of the film we soon observe the infamous Tavington interviewing a dying witness of the event in a battlefield tent hospital. It is in this scene that the witness compares who we know as Benjamin Martin to a ghost. The problem is, as far as we knew, there were no survivors. We had to accept at face value that perhaps one must have escaped. In this version of the film we now know the facts! You see, after Martin does his bloody hack job on a would-be escapee, the camera pans in on one particular Redcoat as he lays wounded in a nearby swamp. We then get a peek at what he sees through his one dying eye: an eerie glimpse of Martin flitting through the dim light of the heavily-wooded forest. Then the camera focuses again on the bloodied face of this dying witness. It is not long thereafter that we discover that this poor chap actually survives (he's the one in the hospital tent). <
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>One particular scene left off the original is the burial of Thomas. Although the scene is short, it nevertheless reiterates that Benjamin Martin has a tender, loving side (remember, a few scenes before he was hacking and slashing away at every Redcoat in sight). <
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>Of particular note are the additional scenes involving Cornwallis and Tavington. Here, the viewer witnesses Cornwallis scolding Tavington in the presence of other officers --- the viewer should be delighted to see the arrogant and villainous Tavington being humiliated in front of others. In the scene, Cornwallis sarcastically remarks that Tavington has earned himself the nickname "The Butcher." This scene is important in that it helps establish and underscore the motive Tavington has for eliminating "The Ghost," Benjamin Martin. Further dialogue between the two is found later in the movie as well. <
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>In short, the additional footage is not just added fluff. Indeed, the additional footage adds substance to every scene where it was originally found. Now, if the original version is a perennial favorite of yours, then by all means go out and get it. If, on the other hand, you may only watch it once in a blue moon then you could probably live without it.