Braveheart 2? Pah-lease...

Rating: 5/10 (1 July 2000)

Seriously folks... This movie tried so hard to be Braveheart, which by the way is one of my top 50 favorite movies, but fell so short. It is 2 hours and 40 minutes of sappy, lame drama broken up (not nearly enough) by decent action sequences. Don't get me wrong, I love drama, but not this kinda drama... This movie definitely had the worst of both worlds. The first twenty minutes felt like an hour as we all waited for the first action scene. This scene is by far the coolest of the picture, and makes the rest of the action pale by comparison. There were too many lame parts to mention, but I will tell you my friend rolled his eyes about 25 times and all we did was make comments all the way through. I am a big movie fan and almost never talk during a film, but this one was just SO boring. At one point the movie completely stops. Just stops. I was glad it was over, but then realized that they never resolved the issue with the anagonist. Then I realized there was more to the film... About 45 minutes more. I almost cried. See this if you wish, but I'm telling you... This movie was so bad it made me wish for Gladiator, which is a huge accomplishment because I'm not to keen on that one either. Hollywood, stop trying to make Bravehearts. It's been done, and you can't do any better. Have some originality.