Gibson Lures the Masses

Rating: 5/10 (7 July 1999)

Congratulations to Mel Gibson for managing to fool nearly everybody into thinking that this is a great movie. It's actually quite silly. The whole theme of "Freedom is good" is not exactly groundbreaking and it doesn't help the cause that Gibson portrays William Wallace as a self serving bully. Also the violence is overdone for a supposedly serious movie. Sure it really was bloody back then but the style chosen indicates that Gibson is getting-off on the carnage much in the style of a Dead-Alive type splatter movie. Also there was so much slow-motion that I often thought Mel Gibson was trying to sell me soap.