Majestic & Entertaining and a bit annoying

Rating: 5/10 (2 March 2010)

I consider myself a big film fan. When a friend recently pointed out that it was a crime that i had not seen this movie, despite it being 15 years old, I bought it cheap and decided it was time to see what i had missed out on.
First of all this movie has all the elements of an epic. Grand scenery, the great hero, a doomed romance, evil bad guys, a wonderful score and it was about as entertaining as it gets. So why isn't it a 10? Well first of all at times it is a little one dimensional the Scottish are brave heroes and the English are evil spineless bimbos to the last man, the inclusion of the homosexual prince for no reason other than for Mel to have his little fantasy and to shag the princess! What went through the writers mind to put that in? He would have stunk.
At that point I felt it bordered on plain stupid. I'm no historian but even I know that was a load of b0llocks. So yes it was entertaining but re writing history to such a degree left me annoyed enough to mark it down.