Mel Gibson's Oscar-winning 1995 Braveheart is an impassioned epic about William Wallace, the 13th-century Scottish leader of a popular revolt against England's tyrannical Edward I (Patrick McGoohan). Gibson cannily plays Wallace as a man trying to stay out of history's way until events force his hand, an attribute that instantly resonates with several of the actor's best-known roles, especially Mad Max. The subsequent camaraderie and courage Wallace shares in the field with fellow warriors is pure enough and inspiring enough to bring envy to a viewer, and even as things go wrong for Wallace in the second half, the film does not easily cave in to a somber tone. One of the most impressive elements is the originality with which Gibson films battle scenes, featuring hundreds of extras wielding medieval weapons. After Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky, Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight, and even Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, you might think there is little new that could be done in creating scenes of ancient combat; yet Gibson does it. --Tom Keogh
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Customer Rating: Summary: Patrick McGoohan deserved an Oscar for his role. Comment: Fortunately for Mel Gibson, he and McGoohan weren't in any scenes together. Gibson is a good actor, but the reclusive Mr. McGoohan would have upstaged him easily without meaning to. He was malevolence personified as Edward I. Customer Rating: Summary: Special edition video much improved over original Comment: I had heard that the video quality on the special edition version was better than the original DVD release. On my plasma screen, the original appeared washed out in many scenes, as if the video was too compressed to handle the source material. In fact, the original is one of the worst DVD's I own in terms of video quality. Fortunately, the special edition version exhibits none of those issues, at least not nearly to the same degree. This fabulous movie seems to have finally gotten the DVD treatment it deserves. Customer Rating: Summary: educational viewpoint Comment: As a high-school teacher for history and English foundations, I must utilize movies as a visual aide supplement to help them connect with the characters, setting, dialogue... I strongly recommend using this dvd to support your curriculum to teach on all levels of student learning (auditory, kinesthetic, visual). Customer Rating: Summary: An Epic for Sure Comment: One has only to read the most helpful reviews at this point to know all about the films details that all come together to make this film work as well as It did. Cinematography, SUPPORTING ACTORS, Score, Etc.
And will go down as one of the all time greats and have comparisons to "Dances with Wolves" having the star as producer and Director. My thoughts are to make it a 3 hour epic they spent too much time In the first hour developing the story when they could have cut that part of the story In half leaving us with the same amount of Information and just as much connection to our hero. Also the fact Mel Is playing a guy much younger but does a pretty good job at convincing us by movies end. Bloody, and yet done with a realism. (This Is how brutal war was)
And after quoting how he didn't want to become a Martyr though Mel actually had them put him on a Cross for his "Time of Pain"!
There Is betrayal on many levels, everything a movie need to be an epic
And even with It's flaws you have to hand It to Mel for bringing all these talented people together to make one of the best Epics of the Decade. And the Important thing Is to anyone who has not seen this yet Is It has a Great Political story to It. It's by far NOT violence for violence sake. It makes you think about just whom our Government would ally with and for what reasons.
And are we all just commoners today? This film won 5 Academy Awards for a reason. I just happen to think some of those reasons were political. Customer Rating: Summary: Very pleased with my purchase Comment: I ordered a copy of this movie from a reseller and I am very happy with the purhcase.
As for the movie, you don't need my review...This movie is great both historically and aesethically.
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