A good movie, I think it's overrated.

Rating: 8/10 (5 November 2000)

Braveheart is a very good movie but I don't think it deserves to be in the "top 100." Historically it's terrible, something Mel continued in "The Patriot." It makes for OK entertainment but anybody getting nationalistic inspiration from this movie should get their head examined. The English kings are portrayed too ridiculously one-dimensional (total evil) and I'm sure things were a lot more complicated; and the love story/affair is just too absurd. This is probably the most inaccurate story of Britain since William Shakespeare penned "Richard III." But of course this film is far from being anything the Bard would have done.