Men are bludgeoned with maces, struck with axes, hit in the face with arrows, set on fire, speared, stabbed, impaled, hanged, decapitated and beaten to a pulp. A leg is severed. A man loses his hand. Another is gouged in the throat with a set of antlers. Horses and their riders are speared with long poles.
Several people have their throats cut.
The most disturbingly graphic occurrence involves Wallace casually slitting the throat of the man who killed his wife in similar fashion. It s easy to feel for him, but he seems to enjoy his vengeance a little too much. In separate incidents, Longshanks has his archers fire into a scrum aware that his own men will be hit, and personally hurls his son s gay lover out a tower window to his death. Wallace beheads the king s nephew and sends Uncle Longshanks the disembodied noggin in a basket. To face martyrdom so bravely.