Passion prevails

Rating: Null/10 (2 September 2000)

* * * (3 out of 5)

Braveheart

Directed by: Mel Gibson, 1995

Loud and booming tale; passionately brought to the screen by director/actor Mel Gibson. The Aussie actually does a great job as the legendary Scottish rebel from the 13th Century (based on myth and legend mostly though), and his grand and heroic epic is both engaging, thrilling and involving.

Features some bloody battle sequences  simply breathtaking. A shame that the love story is too labored and the English are depicted as if doing a good-cop/bad-cop routine.