Historical fantasy.

Rating: 3/10 (1 December 2016)

As a dramatic fairy-tale - for those of us who like action movies and rooting for the underdog - Braveheart Is watchable and entertaining. But there It ends. Where a budget of £75M went(compare to the relatively tiny £3M budget of the Infinitely better "Rob Roy")one can only surmise but It certainly wasn't spent on Historical study. The fact that Mel Gibson takes the part of William Wallace(who was a "real" person) gives the clear and Intentional Implication that this Is a true story - It Is not, and If the main character had been "Just some brave Scot" I could stomach It - but real people and real events have been Interwoven with a fantasy with some of the grossest anti-English sentiment I have ever witnessed In a film. The production team couldn't even get the man-skirts correct(The Kilt was Invented four centuries later by Englishman Thomas Rawlinson In Lancashire In 1720)and the "head-In-a-basket", the "princes-boyfriend-thrown-to-his-death" and multiple other scenes are pure fantasy as Is the age of the homosexual prince's French bride (she was aged 9 when married - not that the marriage would ever have been consummated whatever her age!). The clear Indication that all Englishmen were cowardly scumbags while all Scots were thoroughly decent heroes pervades the whole movie and on a personal note I find this offensive and racist as do many of my movie-loving peers. However, I'm happy for those who will no doubt enjoy It - as long as they realise that the only true fact this movie contains Is the names of some of the people.