A good movie, but historically inaccurate.

Rating: 6/10 (3 May 2002)

A comment by dr_necron on March 7th states that Wallace met Isabella when she was 12 years of age which was the year before his death. I find this hard to believe because he was in hiding in Scotland at the time and she was mainly in France. Does anyone have any information to support this? I would appreciate such info. She married Edward II after Wallace had been killed, but in the movie she is married to Edward while he lives. She is shown in the movie to mediate between the Scots and Edward I, but she actually was a mediator between Edward II and the Barons. She was a remarkable woman! Her real life would make quite a movie. She put her son on the throne in place of her husband and then he eventually put her in prison for most of her life. She lived to be 66 which was quite old for those times. The battle scenes in this movie are very well done. The acting is excellent. However, I would have preferred Wallace to have a different lover, one his own age.