Give Me a Break, Mel Gibson

Rating: 5/10 (8 May 2009)

Mel Gibson directed and starred in this 1995 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, a "historical" epic about Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace set during medieval times.
Gibson of course plays Wallace, decked out in war paint and dreadlocks. Like all of Gibson's work, it shows an almost fetishistic obsession with the story's violence without seeming to care a whit about its characters, and it's capped with one big corny ending that finds Wallace leading a rousing volley of cheers while being drawn and quartered.
This is obvious and silly film-making.
Grade: C