A film of 2 climaxes

Rating: Null/10 (28 December 2002)

Well , here's one for the the lads and the lasses.
The climax for the lads is half way through the film when Mel Gibson finds that he can give the English Cavalry a good hiding with 1000 Scots holding 6 foot kebab sticks.
The climax for the lasses is when Sophie Marceau gives the lad a kiss goodbye before a load of blood thirsty medieval types do their dirty dealings to the main man at the end of the film.
As a conventional Hollywood movie, we should have seen here the lads climax at the end of the film, - an action ending, the underdog struggling against insurmountable odds doing away with the oppressor. It does not happen here (perhaps because that is not how history records it).
I see on this website, the odd reference to Spartacus and I would too draw the same comparison because of the similarity in the underdog's mid-film success against the overwhelming aggressor being tempered by failure at the last battle and a fatal blow to the lasses' love story.
A story of two climaxes? Yes! A film that I'm glad that I watched, Yes! A film that I would watch again - only until the action climax half way through the movie I'm afraid!!!!! but then I am a lad!