A great, inspiring movie. Mel deserved his Oscar and also gives a very underrated performance. It's a classic. I pull out the DVD and watch it every six months or so. I rate it an A.

Everything about this movie is amazing. My #1 All-Time Movie.

A+

A+

Braveheart - A-

One of my favourite movies. Enough said.

fun, but too long medieval movie with great battle scenes and a lot of hollywood cheese- B

Good, but a little bit overrated (B+)

this is a great movie!, ....but to long for me :???:

A-

Amazing movie

A

A-


Really good and yet, really overrated.

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The greatest epic ever. It inspired me to wear kilts and paint my face in public. Not to mention the occasional screams of FREEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM by me
You Shall not take away our freeddddddddooooom
You Shall not take away our freeddddddddooooom
You Shall not take away our freeddddddddooooom
You Shall not take away our freeddddddddooooom

9.5/10

Meh. An uncreative retelling that makes politics into some simple valour and the middleclass into the ultimate traitors and backstabbers. There's one woman in this entire movie and she's pretty much offed in the first few minutes. The other one, is just there because otherwise it would feel like an outright war movie (which it would have been better as). Dialogue is epic in nature, and by that, I mean it never comes across as natural. Not even in more intimate moments. The glory of war is a bit much, and I just found this to be about as interesting as reading old American Revolution historias out of a textbook in highschool. Which is to say, not very interesting. There's something about media, any media, having to do with Revolutions or "the fight for freedom 9tm)" that fail to be insightful in the least. Always conservative, and really repetitive.

I'll give it props for "epic" production, and Gibson clearly isn't the kind of guy that cuts corners the way some other directors do. He takes his time, and the pace never really bothered me in this movie the way it has others. Gibson's strength seems to be direction, not storytelling, and his message just didn't resonate with me at all. The ending did drag a bit with the herodom and the fight to the last breathe, but not in any way more creative than your sword, kind of way.

C+/B-

You're such a girl, dolce.....j/k

Ehehehe!

I just thought it was really simple and conservative. Gibson did The Patriot too, which is why I mentioned the American Revolution. They were both pretty weak and uncreative.

I think the only thing I actually liked about Braveheart were the battle scenes, its everything else that sucked. :wink:

The reason what makes Braveheart such a masterpiece and seperates it from all the other modern epics is its use of symbolism and music. You get a sense that William Wallace is a very real person when he shows no mercy to the murderer of his wife Murion. But with that brutality he balances it out with being a real human being as when he bows down to his slain wife's parents asking them for forgiveness over his wifes death.In a sense its a guy's tearjerker movie. Its what Titanic is to women as Braveheart is to men, it makes men weep and yes theres alot of tearjerker scene like the one where Robert the Bruce betrays William Wallace. The look in William Wallace's emotionally hurt face leds Robert the Bruce to have an epithany and re-examine his belief. It really doesnt quite matter if alot of the depictions aren't based on fact since most true stories arent,its how the events are used to convey the message. The scene that sealed the deal with me that it is without a doubt my top 3 favorite of all time was the execution of William Wallace where he cries out for freedom, its very emotionally draining when combined with the musical score. It also segways into the battle of Bannockburn where Robert the Bruce pleads to the scotsman "You have bled with Wallace,.....now bled with me". Its the way Robert the Bruce delivers his line that gives you goosebumps.

I rate Braveheart higher than it was 10 years ago because no other epic has aroused any emotion the way the movie does. Not Troy,not Kingdom of Heaven and not even Gladiator

A+

I dont think its conservative at all. You can apply the situation in politics today with almost the US being the england of that time and islamic nations as Scotsman. Middle East countries to some are seen as barbaric to the US just like how the English viewed the Scotsman at that time. Theres so many ways to interpret the movie but I see it as an underdog movie and a martyr who united the repressed people for a common cause

=D>

Just your little analysis brings a tear in my eye.

I very much agree with that statement. It was one of only two or three movies I've ever cried in. It was everything I could do to hold back when he yelled Freedom at his death, but then when he saw Murron in the crowd and it was the last thing he ever saw it was just too much

One of the best films ever made, handsdown. A+

Great Film. Gibson does a great job. Even though I think it is a little long and could have been shorter, still in my top 25. A

There is one thing about Braveheart that really annoys me and thats the messy melding of 20th century moralism with medieval history and then attempting to pass the whole thing off as a grand gesture on freedom and the unbreakable will of men.

Everything is so patently fake and forced almost to the levels of Crash, the faux romance music whenever Gibson stares longingly at his love and the utterly absurd caricatures that pass as the English oppressors. The English king is like a stupid pantomime villain designed so blatantly to be hated while conveniently sidelining all the ancillary meat of the British Isles history. If this was dealing with 20th century events then I might forgive it but not on this occasion.

If I was to point out the most blatant hypocrisy of this movie it's the contrived romance between Gibson and the French Queen. This movie so desperately wants to play both sides, the multiplex pleasing romantic interest and the modern morality lesson rammed into middle ages history. Its fake fake fake and I hate that.

Gibson can pull off bloody mayhem like no other man I'll give him props there and the battle sequences are pretty sweet but in the end despite the pretty front he's peddling rotten fruit behind it.

C-

Good movie, but over rated, like Gladiator. B

I would agree that it's overrated, but much moreso than Gladiator, which I actually don't think was. Anyway, I got a little bored with this film, but it has been a while since I've seen it, so maybe it deserves another viewing.