Top notch theatre entertainment

Rating: Null/10 (13 February 2000)

This is definitely best seen on the big screen and I recommend it as a must see for fans of action and romance who enjoy history. The one caveat might be the amount that history was rewritten to fit the story. When I first saw the film I was quite disappointed with the manipulation of historical fact as the lives of many of the key characters have been recorded in some detail and do not fit the Braveheart storyline at all. This is however not meant to be a historical documentary and having now seen the film four times I find the factual inaccuracies don't matter much anymore. The film is an epic period piece of a type not made much anymore and it compares well against any of it's predecessors. I hope Gibson takes another turn at this type of film but he may have set the standard too high.