Cowardly But Entertaining Enough

Rating: 6/10 (6 January 2014)

There are so many Historical Inaccuracies in this Film, as many Scholars who know such Things have pointed out, that they won't be listed here. A small amount of Research will shed some Light. But here is one, and it's a DOOZY.
The Title, is actually from a Poem Written about and Titled for Robert the Bruce, not William Wallace. Want one more? Robert the Bruce never Betrayed William Wallace. That's enough Egghead stuff, now there is the Movie. Best Picture Oscar Winner, by the way, in a very very Slim Year.
The Movie is Entertaining Enough and has been sighted for Rousing, Bloody, You are there Battle Sequences. OK. But most of the Movie is Over Acted, with Mr. Gibson taking the Worst Actor Honors, but not without Strong Competition. The Story is pure Claptrap, Pulpy, Romantic, Sentimental Nonsense. It is Manipulative to the Point of Dreariness for almost its complete Three-Hour Running Time.
It all makes for some Big Screen Excitement and the FREEDOM Plot Motivating the Movie is a sure Crowd Arouser, but it all Smacks of nothing more than a Big-Budget, Battle Cry Behemoth that is Shallow, Sophomoric, and all Made-Up Underneath.
That's because it is. It is all Made into some kind of Superhero Epic, but even that is Undermined because here the Hero not only gets the Girl, He gets any Female who happens to be on the Screen.
Mel Gibson, Our Hero, not only gets the Girls, He got a few Oscars along with. But at the Expense of an Overrated, Good-Looking Movie that throws History to the wind and is at its Heart not very Brave about Anything approaching Reality to tell the Story.