"...A bracing, visceral war adventure..." -- 3 out of 5 stars - Premiere - Christopher Kelly. 3 out of 5 stars from me & Gibson is not one of them either in direction or acting. (Although the Film Academy disagrees with me & other critics of this ruin of the Scottish legend of William Wallace). Historically quite problematic since Gibson takes license with Scottish history & gets much of the story of Scotland's 13th century 'legend', William Wallace, fundamentally wrong. The most egotistical of all the Gibson films I've watched to critique. Scottish history is displaced by American capitalist financial prosper $$$. Gibson directs & plays an ahistorical Wallace as a flaming & brutal gender supremacist bent on bloody gore, heathen man-bonding & brute woman-bashing. It is also racist to the core as if there were no people of color in the Wallace legend or in living ancient Scotland! Alan Ladd Jr. must have been out of his mind to produce this ahistorical, but ever so typical "Hemingwayism" man-to-man bonding through blood & war boring epic. I expect undereducated men to love it, subservient women as well. But for the historically well educated, the nonviolent, children & independent women it's a film to avoid--unless you're viewing it to critique it.Read full review
Braveheart is one of those movies that makes you wish you could erase your memory just to experience it for the first time over and over. While Braveheart may not be the most historically accurate film ever, it certainly is an entertaining one. There is all sorts of goodies in this movie including: drama, revenge (always a favorite), betrayal, corruption, love, bravery, and loyalty. Mel Gibson is almost too good at delivering heartfelt emotional scenes that can tear at the heart of the most brutal man. If you haven't seen this movie, please, do yourself a favor and rent it immediately. You might as well just save yourself the time and buy it, because there's very few people that exist on this earth that can honestly say they dislike Braveheart. Yeah... It's THAT good.
Honestly! How can such a horrible movie be so highly regarded? I think it's because of the recent (last 20 years or so) 'rate-the-film-by-the-money-it-makes-at-the-box-office'. That's like getting a false reading on a scale. Instead of ranking a film by how well it has been made it is ranked according to who made the most money. I won't give this film a dime of mine. I don't consider Gibson a good actor or director: he's just popular because of what used to be his good looks (which have faded, especially now that we do know his true character). What this movie does to Scottish history is unforgivable.
Gibson sure took license with our Scottish history! He trashed it preferring his own ahistorical play time version of what others have named "blood sport." I resent that to no end and can't stand this film. I actually went to see it in the theater! That's right, I paid money to view this long drawn out piece of torture by film butchery. Anyone who's that deeply into making themselves into a martyr who is glorified to the hilt because they allow themselves to be disemboweled publicly is of a different species than the humans I know and like. This film is just one that should have been left on the cutting room floor in shreds, perhaps along with Mr. Gibson since he's so into that kind of scene.
Nothing makes me madder than someone from another nation using the USA to profit while not respecting what out nation stands for. Mel Gibson is now (in 2010) fully outed as a gender, sexuality, class, race, religion and ethnic supremacist. (That word is a sophisticated, soft padded way of saying bigot). As a Scot, I resent how Gibson plays William Wallace as a hot shot when Wallace in one of Scotland's national heroes. As a result of this film, I have viewed Gibson fare as egocentric and utterly self-serving. As for now, I don't both with anything having to do with Mel Gibson and strongly advise that you do likewise.
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