No, not for me

Rating: 4/10 (7 February 2005)

The early part of this film is reasonably well made, it takes sufficient time to introduce the characters, set the scene and build up the story - but only until the first major battle. After that it quickly loses its way, and from there on the whole thing becomes more and more implausible and, frankly, ridiculous - the Princess of Wales negotiating with Wallace, and falling in love? Wallace singlehandedly murdering the Scottish nobles? Wallace conquering York, the North's greatest fortress? Come on, please... I don't mind too much if a movie takes liberties with history if it helps the story, but in this case the story itself becomes totally unbelievable, and with that, the film.
The characters become mere caricatures of themselves without any further development, the film becomes repetitive, boring, way too gory, and ends in utter obscenity with the execution scene. Several times during the second half of the film I was on the point of switching it off out of boredom and sheer annoyance. Way too long and insulting to the viewers intelligence. Why do so many people think this is a masterpiece? A mystery...
4 **** out of 10 because of the first hour and some nice views of the Scottish scenery.