About as perfect as a movie get

Rating: 10/10 (26 June 2007)

People and critics will say that the movie was unnecessarily brutal in the war scenes.Look at it this way,from testimonies logged in the annals of history,any war using a sword or spear or bow and arrow,was never gentle.I mean really,would anyone back then say to their opponent,"Excuse me,would you mind if i hacked off your arm?,or your head?".Of course not....war is war,and the brutality was done on both sides as a means of winning the battle.Soldiers were hacked to near pieces because of the fact there was no other way to do battle.We saw nobles,kings,common folk raging to achieve a freedom that one man stood for.This film was superb in every way,and Mel Gibson directed with absolute perfection in accordance with the historical facts from the actual Wallace clan.I have to say that Patrick macgoohan was marvelous as longshanks.He gave the evil king a good name as far as evil really goes.Oscar worthy performance from him.If anyone has not seen this film,do so.Because other than 300 or gladiator this film ranks as the best descriptive of war history and freedom since the ten commandments.