Who says Braveheart isn't great?

Rating: 10/10 (18 April 2006)

I've seen Braveheart over a million times and I still watch it to this day. It's a great movie with some amazing cinematography. Mel Gibson really saw something in the not-so-specific story of William Wallace and so he took that and ran wild with it, which is a good thing. Sure Braveheart is rather gory, but what if it wasn't? It wouldn't be so great, I can tell you that much. Patrick McGoohan (Longshanks, Kind Edward I) and Angus MacFadyen (Robert the Bruce) portrayed their characters in a spectacular way. They showed perfectly how greed over power can force a man to do whatever it is in his will that lets him do so. Then there's always the good character, which here is William Wallace, but sometimes the/a good character can be tricked or persuaded into giving himself to the other side, for his life, or for something of lesser value. But Wallace (Gibson) didn't want that and he obviously didn't care whatever it was that was going to happen to him, because he wanted it not only for himself, but for his people. And that is a grand quality, and a grand character.