The acting is very good, the scenery is breathtaking, the battles shockingly realistic...

Rating: 9/10 (20 September 2004)

Some people have written bad critics about this movie because it isn't historically accurate, because it isn't as good as Spartacus or other movies... I have to say that I don't care about such things at all when seeing this movie.
You never get the feeling that Mel Gibson was trying to give you the one and only true story about William Wallace. Please don't forget that he based his movie on the novel written by Randall Wallace and not on all kind of history books. So why say that this movie is bad because he didn't respect history at all? By the way, who of us knows all what happened than? At the time we weren't there either, were we? And why comparing this movie to Spartacus or other movies? Just because both movies have a battle scene? Many movies have that kind of scenes, but that is still no reason to compare them.
I respect everybody's opinion, but personally I really enjoyed watching this movie. The acting is very good, the scenery is breathtaking, the battles shockingly realistic... It even had a great story. What more can you expect from a movie? Not much I would say.
There are of course many people who might be shocked by all the heads being split open, the limbs cut off... but that was how a battle went at the time. That doesn't mean that I would recommend it to everybody though. People who faint when seeing a drop of blood shouldn't watch this movie, or should keep their finger on the fast forward button. To other people I can only say: Watch it, you'll love it, I know I did. I even rewarded it with an 9/10.