(The plot, as the reviewer describes below, sounds similar to Mel Gibson's Patriot, doesn't it?)
From the Guardian: Revolution: The Director's Cut
After the critical and popular success of Chariots of Fire and Greystoke, Hugh Hudson's career suffered a major setback with the failure of Revolution, his big-budget epic about the American war of independence as experienced by a fur trapper (Al Pacino)
forced into military service to protect his son, a middle-class rebel
throwing herself into the revolutionary cause (Nastassja Kinski) and a
sadistic English sergeant major (Donald Sutherland). While expressing my
admiration for its ambition, its designers and some individual scenes,
my initial review was generally unfavourable. But when the film appeared
on TV in the early 1990s I suggested that "the time is ripe for
reappraisal". Seeing Hudson's director's cut, which involved some
re-editing, a changed final sequence and, most importantly, the addition
of a commentary spoken by the Pacino character, I wrote a reassessment
that was published in the programme of the 2008 Dinard British film festival, which featured a Hudson retrospective. I described Revolution
as "profound, poetic and original… among the great movies about the
experience of individual citizens living in times of dramatic social
change". This review is included in the booklet accompanying the
handsome dual format DVD/Blu-ray version of the film.
