Braveheart

“By the film’s conclusion, detachment isn’t just difficult—it’s unthinkable.”

peterveugelaersabout 75–100% inread it ↗

“Good pacing and action that kept me interested the whole time.”

ChriswatchesTVabout 0–100% inread it ↗

“o próprio Wallace é morto em praça pública, achei esse final muito inesperado e original”

CoolBRabout 75–100% inread it ↗

“The moment when Robert the Bruce betrays him and he does not utter a line of dialogue and the whole scene just plays out looking at him with the most heartbroken face you could possibly imagine, that scene always hits me so hard.”

davidlovesfilmabout 60–70% inread it ↗

“The story line of this movie keeps you on the edge of your seat all the way through the movie.”

Anton2kabout 0–100% inread it ↗

“Historical flaws aside, Braveheart is a rousing spectacle. So it comes to pass in the year of 1995 (not a year of our lord I think) that Mel Gibson would craft the award winning epic that is Braveheart, a film that is historically bent in the extreme, that is directed by a man who would go on to have a less than favourable character reputation, and a film that has a heavy handed approach at times. It's also as choppy as a boat ride during a tidal wave, so yes, Braveheart is far from flawless ”

John Chardread it ↗

“When i saw this I was 15 and it was one of the greatest movies I had ever seen. Fast forward to today, I'm 41, and degrees and history and... the battle of Sterling Bridge is like fingernails on a chalkboard whenever I see it. I watched it with my wife and, "no, she was like 3 and living in France." So I don't know. It was dramatic and moody and stylistically beautiful. It was a typical Gibson gore fest and that is always fun. It was well acted, the score added to the drama, and it spawned”

GenerationofSwineread it ↗

“I am afraid that as a Scotsman, I had way more problem with the factual elements of this than perhaps I ought to have had. We have this history drummed into us as bairns, and so when a grand-scale depiction like this comes along, I excitedly expected more. It doesn't matter a jot that the eponymous Mel Gibson isn't a Scot - that is the acting equivalent of a red herring. What matters is that the story is largely a work of fiction. Gory, beautiful, authentic looking, certainly - but fiction nonet”