Braveheart Does Rome

Rating: 1/10 (13 February 2005)

The title of this movie should be "Braveheart Does Rome, And not nearly as Well." If it weren't for Joaquin Phoenix, I'd have never made it to the end of the move.
From the beginning of the movie where the beautiful wife and home are faded in, then, to where the wife dies, and until the end, with the fade-in of the beautiful home and wife, it's a copycat of Braveheart.
Why so many people raved about this movie, and how Russell Crowe won a best actor Oscar for it (while snubbing Mel for Bravehart) is beyond me.
If you've seen Braveheart, you've seen this; and Russell Crowe is no Mel Gibson.
One star.