Forget about the chaos of the haters for a minute, this is a great epic!

Rating: 10/10 (7 January 2010)

Braveheart is a great battle epic, but if you one of those people who are almost obsessed with historical inaccuracies in movies, then probably you are not impressed, positively affected and entertained by this movie like us. As for Mel Gibson, it is known that there are a lot of enemies of him, there are a lot of people who hate him. Why? It is because he is a deep catholic and you are not? It is because he did a speech about Jewish people, when he was drunk? or it is because you think that the movie is one sided, it shows some English people as evil? or it is because you are a nerd who doesn't forgive any movie, if it has historical inaccuracies? As for being one sided or racist, should we toss movies out, if they are one sided, even if those movies are cinematically and artistically great? This is the key question. If so, for example Saving Private Ryan is an awful movie either, right? By the way since I am not English, I can't know what you feel, so about this point, English people might be right. If I had been English, may be I would have hated the movie too, but in these circumstances, as an historical epic, as a war movie for me, it is one of greatest movies of all time and the best historical action ever! You may dislike this movie, I can understand that, but trolling is not my cup of tea and I find it unfair, so what really disturbs me is those kind of ugly and nasty stuff, written by people. I mean that some say that acting was awful, direction was awful etc. I like Mel Gibson, he is one of my favorite actors / directors. I believe that in this movie, he gave one of his best performances, may be the best. William Wallace. With his long hairs, blue eyes, with his mimics, stares, hard looks... His face while looking at the man in their first insurgency, his face while looking at the blonde child. These are great moments in the history of cinema. The final was one of the most 'heavy' and heartbreaking finals ever made (of course not for the people who hate him) I know that the haters watch that with pleasure. Direction, Mel Gibson, Mel Gibson's interesting William Wallace interpretation, cinematography, its dramatic impact and because of the battle scenes, I love Braveheart. Some people claim that Gibson imitated Kurosawa's Ran, sorry but does Ran has even a real battle sequence? And I know that it will be very assertive, but in terms of direction, mise-en-scene in battle scenes, Gibson is much better than even the master Kurosawa. If we don't count The Lord of the Rings, you cannot find better battle scenes in the history of cinema! The most well planned, the most detailed and the most epic battle scenes are here. To me, Saving Private Ryan is the greatest of the all war movies and Braveheart is the greatest one of the all battle epics.