Simple fable Â– inaccurate and racist

Rating: 4/10 (6 August 2001)

I can't say I hate Braveheart, it's actually not too badly made. The camera work is generally good, the music is excellent and the battle scenes are well done.
If you accept that this is just made up Hollywood stuff for kids, good guys vs bad guys then it's ok. The problem is, most don't and this won Oscars for Gods sake.
First of all, how can anyone give this film a 10/10, the characters are black and white, good vs evil, so completely unrealistic. The story uses historical characters that actually existed and then makes up the entire story. Basically you have a violent thug, who somehow can speak French and Latin, who hasn't had a bath ever and he's sleeping with the future Queen of England, come on.
Can you imagine the outrage if the KKK replaced the Scottish and the English were all black, the film would have been banned in a second. Yet because it's the English that are nasty, that's ok.
If I made a movie portraying Abraham Lincoln as a child molester and a wife beater, who raped and killed innocent children, then claimed it was true, received 10/10 in this site and won an Oscar as best director. Wouldn't a few Americans find it offensive, oh no it's ok, it's just Hollywood, that's all right.
I can accept that an historical Hollywood film might be inaccurate, but portraying a whole nation as evil and ugly is very offensive and moreover acknowledging it as great film is even worse.