The best film ever!

Rating: 10/10 (16 January 2001)

I like to see what other people think of the movies in my top 100 particularly my top 10. I have been mad at what people have said about #5 Gladiator and how its story is terrible. First of all I feel that it isn't that bad but it's no #3 Casablanca either. I watch certain movies for certain things. Casablanca and #6 Citizen Kane rely on how good their screenplays are because they don't have any spectacle. Gladiator is being judged on its story, that is like judging Casablanca for its spectacle, it wouldn't be that good. Gladiator relies on its spectacle and Casablanca relies on it's story but when a movie combines one of the greatest screenplays ever written with the best spectacle ever you get the best movie ever BRAVEHEART. It has some great performances especially by Mel Gibson. This movie also has some of the best cinematography, editing, costumes, and art direction ever. Plus the best, the BEST, score ever. I would watch the movie just to listen to the music it is absolutly beautiful. Randall Wallace wrote one of the best scripts ever and Mel directed it wonderfully. It also has some of the most famous scenes in movie history such as the speech before the battle of Stirling, the battle of Stirling, and the famous ending were he shouts FREEDOM. This is a very rare movie, it's even romantic and has some funny parts, it combines a Casablanca like script and Gladiator spectacle, although without Braveheart, Gladiator probably would never had been made. This is a MUST see for any movie fan, you haven't seen a movie till you have seen Braveheart. This is one of the 6 movies that I have ever given my highest rating were I am so impressed I give it another star. Braveheart, The Godfather, Casablanca, Schindler's List, Gladiator, and Citizen Kane, all 5/4 stars. Braveheart is my #1 out of 100 and will probably never be beat because that movie would have to be better written than the Godfather and have better battle scenes than Braveheart which I don't think will happen.