Tells you more about Hollywood than Scotland....

Rating: 3/10 (18 February 2003)

This movie uses Scottish History as the 'mcguffin'. It has more to do with the conventions and cliches of Hollywood and the superficial people therein than with Scottish history, medieval or modern. The only Scots who saw any merit in its distortion of the facts was the Scottish National Party who sought to capitalize from it politically and failed. But mind you, the tourism industry did not too bad out of it so I suppose it's worth a few points: Three out of ten.