| − | |Mel Gibson plays Benjamin Martin; a patriot and a father that fights for American freedom during the [[American Revolution]]. Although it promotes America in a positive light and promotes patriotism, the film alongside several other films released around the same time (such as ''Hollow Man'', ''The Animal'', ''A Knight's Tale'', and ''Vertical Limit'', was also involved in a scandal by Sony Pictures where fake reviews by a fictitious reviewer named David Manning were made as a form of movie marketing, as well as being involved in a scandal about how various trailers had Sony using employees posing as moviegoers to go see the film and give excellent reviews.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20010609225327/http://www.msnbc.com/news/581770.asp?cp1=1</ref><ref>https://www.thoughtco.com/sony-fake-film-critic-story-4062655</ref><ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1495591/Sony-ordered-to-pay-1.5m-for-film-goer-hoax.html</ref> | + | |Mel Gibson plays Benjamin Martin; a patriot and a father that fights for American freedom during the [[American Revolution]]. Although it promotes America in a positive light and promotes patriotism, the film alongside several other films released around the same time (such as ''Hollow Man'', ''The Animal'', ''A Knight's Tale'', and ''Vertical Limit''), was also involved in a scandal by Sony Pictures where fake reviews by a fictitious reviewer named David Manning were made as a form of movie marketing, as well as being involved in a scandal about how various trailers had Sony using employees posing as moviegoers to go see the film and give excellent reviews.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20010609225327/http://www.msnbc.com/news/581770.asp?cp1=1</ref><ref>https://www.thoughtco.com/sony-fake-film-critic-story-4062655</ref><ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1495591/Sony-ordered-to-pay-1.5m-for-film-goer-hoax.html</ref> |