Unbelievably overestimated

Rating: 5/10 (3 March 2000)

For all honesty, I cannot understand why everyone is so excited about this one. I mean, as far as Middle Age movies go, Excalibur, the Name of the Rose, or even Dragonheart (not to mention Monty Python and the Holy Grail, ha, ha) are far better than this one. Sure, it has some pretty good battle scenes, Mel Gibson's directing and acting is impressively better than expected, but otherwise it's just another story about a Middle Age hero, no better than all those movies and TV series about Robin Hood or William Tell that we watched when we were children. To come to a conclusion, of all the big Oscar winners of the past decade, this is surely the least interesting.