More, sappy, revisionist history...

Rating: 4/10 (2 April 2003)

Sorry guys, this is another one of those movies that really takes a dive whenever anyone speaks. Well, not anyone, just Sophie and Mel. The supporting cast is solid, Cox and McGoohan in particular, but there's no escaping the fact that they are burdened with a script made to inflame the hearts of Scotland-ophiles everywhere. Mr Wallace basically lifted a whole bunch of names from the pages of history and then remade events to suit his film. Sorry, sorry work. I sat through this thing hoping that Gibson would be captured at each turn so that it would end. Did no one else notice that Gibson's Robert the Bruce was a snivelling wimp? The real Bruce was a frightful warrior and powerful King who has got to be spinning in his grave over this travesty. Not to mention that Wallace never got within a country mile of Princess Issabelle...much less fathered her child. Sorry. Wrong again. This is another movie that should have been shortened by removing all the spoken lines. The battle scenes were excellent...sorry about the rest.