It's a never ending saga

Rating: 10/10 (20 June 2009)

"Braveheart" true to its title portrays one of the greatest and bravest heroes, William Wallace who fights for the freedom of Scotland to break away from the tyranny of England under an especially cruel king reigning from the throne of England.
As with every saga and a great story, it's more than that. William Wallace represents a hero one could believe in and bleed for in and out of battlefield. It's the heroic character of William Wallace that captures the audience's imagination and takes one to the whirlwind tour of the display of the sublimity of human spirit.
Never once making Wallace a super hero, the film portrays a human, a commoner one can easily believe in and elevates the love, war, peace, kingdom, friendship, betrayal to their quintessential purities and in a touching way.
Apart from the emotional part of it, the film throws up a few surprises too to a good measure like the war scene in which William cries, "Hold, hold" only to reveal the plot in the last minute to thwart the approaching cavalry. Also, not to mention the best showcasing of the interplay of characters and relationships in the end when Wallace is being 'purified'.
All in all, a superlative story executed to its perfection, never over hyping yet making it one of the grandest epics the films have presented to the world.