The worst film ever made.

Rating: 1/10 (17 November 1999)

Imagine David Thomson's John Ford really existed - he'd have made BRAVEHEART. The IMDb guidelines ask us to refrain from being nasty, but surely I can say that this is a deeply fascist work, one that offers only one point of view, reduces to caricatures anything that opposes it, and is filmed in a bludgeoning, wearing style. The treatment of the English is appropriate and probably accurate, but the response is brutal, ugly and reprehensible. The homophobia is horrific, and the film's bigotries and allegiances seem aimed at football hooligans, republicans and thugs. Worse than any of this, though, is that it is a very dull film, which is badly made when it isn't reiterating cliches, and its cod-Celtic, very fascist sentimentality is nauseating.