WALLACE! WALLACE! WALLACE!

Rating: Null/10 (22 January 2001)

I was born in Scotland but I have been living in London for the past 17 years.Undoubtedly this is the GREATEST MOVIE EVER.......... It made me wish that I was a Scottish rebel several hundred years ago slicing up English men to pieces at the battle of Stirling in William Wallace's army!! Had it not been for William Wallace and his resistance army, Scotland may well have been merged into England, since no other Scottish noble seemed to have the guts to stand up against Longshanks. But under his leadership, Wallace was able to unite the highland clans into a resistance army that devastated the English at Stirling...and continued to harass them with guerilla techniques until his betrayal by a fellow Scot. At the end of the movie, the torture through which William Wallace suffered was UNIMAGINABLE !! They hanged him until he almost suffocated,castrated him,cut out his intestines with blades(while he was still alive !) before beheading him...and they say that England was a christian country at the time !!!!!!!!! The film ends AS IF after the Battle of Bannockburn (1314), the Scots live happily free from English threat forever. NOT TRUE ! In 1333, Edward III (grandson of Longshanks) invaded Scotland, routed a Scottish army at Halidon Hill..made Balliol the puppet King of Scotland....and hence became overlord of Scotland for several years! But Scotland survived losing its freedom (AGAIN !) during this period because the Hundred Years war began (England V France)..and this took England's attention off Scotland for good ! Actually the Scots fought for the French during this war and helped them defeat the English(Thank God !!)........ ANYWAAAAAY, the point is this is ONE HELLLLL OF A FILM SO GO OUT AND BUY IT ON DVD !!!!!!!!!!!