This is history done wrong.

Rating: 6/10 (26 January 2006)

Once again Mel Gibson has made a real hash of history which doesn't sit well with people who know anything about the subject.
As an action movie the film is okay and I think Heath Ledger is superb. The grand camera shots are fantastic which makes it all the more harder to bear. This is history done wrong. A film that is up there with the worst of them (Braveheart being top of the list) yet something pulled me towards it.
I even bought it when it came out. Perhaps I liked the plot or perhaps I just forgot about history and simply watched an action film.
Even so it is hard for an historian to like it completely. Even more so when one is English.
Anyway the upshot is that as a historical film it flops flat on its face but as an action film it has its moments. Though I doubt I'll ever watch it again. Not after studying the subject further.