I apologize in advance for coming across as an even bigger pedantic dick than usual, but I just cannot step over this film's fabricated history lesson.

I know, I know, historical accuracy is always a tricky thing and most films present a romanticised version of events. But this film portrays 'recent' history from a rather well documented time period. And it isn't so much the small things that were changed for cinematic convenience that bother me, it's the big things.

So it's not the fact that the Scots didn't wear kilts in those days, not did they paint their faces. There are many of those things in it, changed for the audience's understanding. Search the internet and you'll find lists…

Between this film and Avatar I'm just two steps away from tattooing my face blue!

When I see quality films like this I have to wonder why all films aren't made with the same passion and spirit as this one! While the film played footloose and fancy free with historical facts is of little or no consequence when the end result is a high caliber Epic, of which many (myself included) deem to be a modern day masterpiece!

Mel and I have the same credo! Go Big or Go Home! Mel didn't stop at Big he went full blown postal and never once looked back! Mel may be a flawed individual (We All Are) but he's one hell of an…

Braveheart is *GREAT* and I had no idea that I would love it. Pretty much everything about this thing worked for me and I am stunned by that. I typically hate war movies and really long movies, and this checks off both of those boxes, but I was thoroughly impressed and engaged while watching every scene in this.

The direction of this movie is simply phenomenal. Every scene focuses both on the characters and the event finding a great balance. The best way I can describe the direction is huge. Everything about it just feels so big. The number of people he had to focus on, the action sequences, the character movement during the interactions and war scenes, and the…

Braveheart is an Oscar-winning Best Picture I used to consider good, now I think it’s very good – it has more intellectual perception than I once thought, so the plague of historical inaccuracy complaints against it to me are nil. Mel Gibson is the brutal Scots warrior William Wallace who led a rebellion against the bullying, pillaging English in the 14th century. It has Gibson insult-whupping his autocrat oppressors before plunging into male aggression pandemonium with close-ups of braining impalements, eviscerations and throat slicing; Patrick McGoohan as the snide King Edward I sneers from his cowardly secluded quarters. On a shallow enjoyment level, for most male viewers we sway back in forth in whom we find more desirable: Catherine McCormack…

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Braveheart is an ambitious and well made war epic. I’ve wanted to watch this for a long time now and I went into this with pretty high expectations. Although this film has its flaws the entertainment value is very high and I genuinely enjoyed every moment of this even if it feels slow at times. The plot is great it’s an iconic and entertaining story. I’ve noticed that I’m becoming a fan of the format where in the medieval/Roman times where a peasant works his way up into becoming a figure in fighting their leaders or government. It’s simply an uplifting story that reminds you to…

There is a point where a film surpasses being just an epic and becomes an iconic masterpiece, and a movie that reaches that pinnacle for me is Mel Gibson's Braveheart.

From its ruggedly authentic production design, sweeping epic score, brisk pacing, masterful editing/direction in the battle sequences, and gorgeous cinematography ... IMO it all reaches the point of cinematic perfection.

I have likely seen all or part of this movie at least dozens of times, since it was always my best friend's favorite movie to fall asleep to. Seemed like ever time I would stay over at his house he would pop this in and be asleep by the 45 min mark, leaving me to enjoy all the gritty medieval…

Braveheart is one of the best "bad" movies ever made and possibly one of the worst "good" movies ever. It's a slithery beast, slippery with blood, sliding between objectively terribly and ludicrously entertaining. Some scenes feature Gibson's knack for horror, his unrelenting and unblinking camera focusing on images culled from darkest nightmares, where other scenes, laconic and clumsy, go on too long, and misunderstand the value of economical visual storytelling.

I wanted to find a YouTube clip of Robert the Bruce's introduction, but I can't find it, so instead, we'll use Edward Longshanks' introduction of prima nocte as our great example of Gibson's baffling editing choices. Here's the clip. The princess enters the dungeon-like meeting room where the King is…

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I like Mel Gibson enough but I can't help but feel he doesn't quite fit this role. Someone younger, or a more transformative actor might have fit in better. Gibson has enough charisma to support a character that often uses speech to create allegiance, but I only saw Gibson when I looked at him, not William Wallace.

Where he shines is behind the camera, and in the editing room. It's a long movie but it doesn't always feel like it, even if it takes 45 minutes for his story to kick in. There are granular details within the sweeping scale: tiny reaction inserts, time dilation, etc. I was impressed…