Reminiscent of the Roadrunner

Rating: 8/10 (11 March 1999)

An impressive film in many ways, but twice before the hero finally is dispatched by the super-evil, tougher-than-Hitler English king, Wallace evidently is mortally wounded -- once on the field of battle, later again in a treacherous ambush by his own Scottish "noblemen".
In the next scene (twice) our boy Mel pops up again, all bright-eyed, clean-shaven and looking fit as a fiddle, ready to fight on.
In the midst of all the grandeur, this gave me illicit thoughts of Wiley Coyote and his similarly instant recoveries from mayhem at the hands of the Roadrunner.
A grand, impressive, but very flawed film.