The final scene with the choppers dropping flowers for people to collect and make tea is real idiotic. I wonder how have they dared to film this nonsense. Seagal has worked alongside some good actors, hasn't he learned anything? This movie should be called "1995. Outbreak. A Bizarre Homemade Remake".

this movie may have Steven Seagal in it,but it's not really a Steven Seagal Film.by that i mean it's not a typical Seagal film.and that isn't necessarily a bad thing.in this case it works out OK.there is very little action.only a few brief fight scenes lasting seconds.it' more of a drama/lite thriller.in the vein of Outbreak,but not nearly as exciting.still,it's not boring.i didn't find it preachy myself although i know some people did.so without wall to fight sequences,how does Seagal do when it comes to the acting department?he does alright.he may never win an academy award,but i think he can act on occasion if he has to.for me,The Patriot is a 6/10

I do not really have a problem with B-films. I do have a problem with B-films that seem to think they are not and therefore take themselves too seriously. With 'The Patriot' the cinematography and music show us how serious the film is meant. It even plays a version of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" when helicopters are seen. Of course Steven Seagal always looks like he is the star of 'Terms of Endearment' as well.I will not talk about the plot too much since it does not really matter. I can say it is a mix between you typical Steven Seagal film and 'Outbreak'. We have Seagal as a doctor who used to be CIA, a villain who infects a town with a virus, a lot of coincidences and of course Seagal who saves the day. Nothing new here, all done a lot better in other films, this is another bad one from Steven Seagal.

This movie could have been a great guilty-pleasure flick. All of the essentials are there- a hero who can kick ass, a villain who's unquestionably evil yet believable (played by the unappreciated Gailard Sartain), and an intriguing plot involving mass panic in a town overrun by a deadly virus. Sadly, none of this matters in the end- there's very little fighting or action of any sort to speak of. I don't know if anybody involved with this movie understands this, so I'll state this as succinctly as I can: nobody wants to watch Seagal in a drama. We want to see him fight. He can't act, and that's fine. I sure as hell couldn't act my way out of a Sunkist commercial. But I don't inflict my shortcomings on my nonexistent fanbase. I limit the suffering to friends and family. This movie was obviously not written with Seagal in mind. One thing I do really like about this movie: the "patriot" in question seems to be the bad guy, rather than a reference to Seagal's character. This movie wasted a really good villain. Sartain's hypermilitant white supremacist (or whatever) was actually kind of interesting in his single-minded conviction that he was doing something good. That's something you rarely see in movies anymore- a villain simply mistaken in his beliefs. Too bad he couldn't have been used in a better film. The movie itself is definitely not terrible- many other movies have been much bigger disappointments. If this film had had more excitement (ie: fights) it could have been one of the great ones.