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...bending wonder, he sets up a martial beat taken from the fife-and-drum bands that have been playing in these hills since the Civil War, then dances around it with virtuoso rock and jazz accents. Luther, 27, his soft features framed by thick black curls, finger picks his Gibson hollow body and uses a bottleneck slide to make it skitter and howl. Garry Burnside locks in to the groove on bass (Chew is off working today, driving a truck for Williams-Sonoma), David Kimbrough Jr. adds a slinky guitar part, and Kenny Kimbrough wails on a conga. The instruments...
...Warner Bros. executives, can read the critics or check out the box-office grosses after opening weekend. (You'll know them; they'll be the ones with the gnawed-down fingernails and little voodoo dolls bearing a striking resemblance to the July 4 competition: Rocky, Bullwinkle and Mel Gibson...
...will suffer from the age-old suspicion of movies in which guys wear knee britches and write with quill pens. But if the mass audience can get behind Gladiator, why shouldn't it take a flier on more recent history? You telling us Russell Crowe is cuter than Mel Gibson? Or in his picture suffers more than Gibson does? Get outta here...
...Gibson is cast as a grieving widower named Benjamin Martin. In the French and Indian War he was a gallant, not to say legendary, commander, but something bad happened in its course--a preventable atrocity, we eventually learn--and he is determined to raise his numerous progeny in peace and prosperity on his South Carolina plantation. In the state assembly he votes against raising troops and money for a war of independence. This alienates his son Gabriel (charmingly played by Heath Ledger), who joins the Continental Army. And it reckons without the relentless cruelty of Colonel William Tavington (whom Jason...
...that, perhaps, is why Mel Gibson was placed on earth. He is hard pressed here--by family losses, by the unrelieved harshness of this nasty, backwoods war, by the demons that haunt his character. Yet we are never unaware of the actor's fundamental good nature, reflected in Martin's fierce, sweet love of family, the casual ease of his action passages. He is unquestionably a star who can open a picture. Now we will see if he can, as he did in the even more unlikely Braveheart, narrow the distance between the modern audience and far-off history...