Waste of everything

Rating: 4/10 (15 January 2007)

First and foremost, lousy amateurish screenplay. From action to scenes, to plot to dialogue, oh my god. Gibson's acting is so-so at best. King Edward's acting is awesome! But the freaking lines across the board suck (actor's spoken lines.) If you're into slash, dash, slash some more dash even more, that really does not 'evolve' in any way, then see it. The photography is beautiful, but is photography enough to justify spending nearly 3 hours on this thing? Whether William Wallace was a great person / warrior you're left to infer that he 'should have been' but that is not on the screen though intended as outcome of the flick - yuck. His character is badly drawn across the conflicts. I haven't read the book (novel on which it is based), hopefully it is much more interesting than the slam bam surface only flick.