Oh my god, howlingly bad

Rating: 1/10 (11 January 2010)

I just watched this, although it took me days to finally finish watching this 3 hour bloated boring movie in its entirety. I would watch one hour and then had to take breaks because of how bad it was, but I was determined to watch it to the end. Its the kind of movie that is so bad, so amazingly goofy, that its funny.
I don't know anything about the history of Scotland and don't care, my review is on the movie itself. Mel Gibson, I liked him in the Mad Max movies. But in this movie, he is nutty and just totally ridiculous. He wears weird blue makeup in a battle scene, and then after killing all the enemy he stands there covered in blood and gore, and looks at his men, and screams "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGG" It is so ridiculous and laughable!
Then it gets worse! At the end of the movie he is brought in on a freakin' CROSS, like he is Jesus Christ! I have to say I lost it at that point. What in the world were they thinking? I was blown away by how loony and silly this scene was, with Mel looking at all the people throwing things at him, and he is pretending to be holy like a Jesus or somethin'. When he screamed "FREEDOM" at the end, I wanted to scream too - in agony! I can't believe this movie won awards, except for if it had won a raspberry award for worst picture!