BOREDOOOOOMM!!!

Rating: 1/10 (2 September 2000)

Although I went very enthusiastically to the theater to watch Braveheart due to its Oscar awards, seeing how MONOTONOUS this movie was simply a terrible disappointment to me. To begin with, the movie was unduly long; so long that as soon as the first half ended,I thought the movie was over !! And during the next half, I had my most boring hour at the theater. However, to my great relief, the movie ended after about an hour. My boredom is on account of the slow flow of the events and the lack of interest and excitement in most of the scenes ( more than half of the movie ).In fact, Gibson should have placed more emphasis on the crucial events which were supposed to be a milestone in different periods of the life of William Wallace. Unfortunately, Gibson did not seem to have given the enough expression to those crucial events; that's why , most of the time, the movie was monotonous except the spectacular war scenes, which were- I think- the greatest accomplishment of Mel Gibson as a director; not an actor. The breathtaking war scenes could not prevent the dullness of the movie, though.
As for music, I think it went perfectly with the "Scottish" atmosphere of the movie. Though not as successful as his wonderful work in Titanic, James Horner did a great work in Braveheart, too.
Finally the acting was OK, but not very outstanding. I do not think this was a bad movie, but it was extremely boring to me. 6/10