Braveheart

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Summary: Every Man Dies...Not Every Man Really Lives!!
Review: Best movie ever!!! Even if the historical facts represented in the movie are not entirely accurate, it portrays the harshness and brutality of the time very accurately. Anyone who takes any Hollywood production, fact or fiction, to be the absolute truth is very naive. Mel Gibson rocked and should have won best actor. James Horner did an amazing job with the soundtrack and every time I hear bagpipes I think of William Wallace. This movie has the best ending, the best action scenes, best drama, romance and even some comedy. I can't think of a more complete movie that I have ever seen or that has been made. They only allow 5 stars, but it deserves many, many more!!

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Summary: This is one of the most powerful dramas ever made!
Review: This movie has all the aspects. It had love and romance, war, and depicts a man fighting for what he believes in. The best part: the movie, despite a few factual errors is completely true. If you don't want to take my word, take the Academy Awards' word; Braveheart was nominated for 10 oscars.

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Summary: Very Well Made But Historically Inaccurate Film!
Review: Nominated for ten Academy Awards and winner of 'Oscars' for Best Picture, Director, Cinematography (John Toll), Makeup, and Sound Effects Editing, few can argue that this movie was not well made. This film managed to propel Sir William Wallace, the infamous 13th-century Scottish hero through nearly seven centuries via the magic of a Hollywood script that took great liberties with historical fact. While many praised this movie's epic film making accomplishment, just as many historians decried it's lack of historical accuracy. The film's script, by American screenwriter Randall Wallace (no relation), of William's life, love, and death owes much to Blind Harry, a 15th century minstrel who put his rhymes into writing *150* years after Wallace's execution. Wallace historians and biographers continually dispute part or all of Blind Harry's narrative, but his account of the patriot's life DOES provide the most entertaining version of the tale. Blind Harry also used a heavy hand when sprinkling his tale with bitter sweet passion. His mention of a young maiden named Marion Braidfute of Lamington, who Wallace allegedly courted and wed, provided the inspiration for Murron (Catherine McCormack), Wallace's secret wife in this movie. However, no factual evidence of the marriage survives to corroborate Blind Harry's, and now Hollywood's, tale. On the other hand, Wallace DID murder Sir William Heselrig, English sheriff of Lanmark. Wallace put him to the sword and cut him to pieces in May 1297. One of the film's most intriguing twists is pure Hollywood invention. A calendar puts the lie to the tale of Wallace's affair with Princess Isabella (Sophie Marceau), wife of Prince Edward II, and the fathering of her child. Isabella and Edward II married in 1307, two years AFTER Wallace's execution. Her son Edward III, was born in the years that followed. Incidentally, Wallace was executed by hanging, drawing, and quartering, not by disemboweling at the gallows as the film suggests. The script was also very unkind to Edward I (Patrick McGoohan) specifically, and to the Normans in general, who no historian will dispute, regardless of tactics, unified a then very diverse England and molded it into the great nation it still is to this day. Many other inaccuracies appear in this film as well. So what we have here is a film that is almost as much a fantasy as it is an epic. But admittedly, it is the good-guy, bad-guy scenario that is the proven Hollywood formula for success. The true power of this medium is that it has the ability to EDUCATE as well as to entertain, and it's truly shameful that so many viewers think this movie is an accurate representation of historical fact. It is not! See it for the character portrayals, costumes and well orchestrated battle scenes. But remember, the story itself is as much a self-serving, Hollywood-formula fantasy, as it is somehow well done.

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Summary: Really cool heads,arms,legs flying all over the place
Review: A really intense,and exciting movie.Its all full of blood and gore who wouldn't like it.Its got a stunning performance by mel gibson.I would have to say its the best mel gibson film ever.the afi should of had it on there top 100,It definitly deserves to be on there.Braveheart is an award winning classic.

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Summary: Awesome! One of my all-time favorites!
Review: OK, so what if it's not perfectly historic --- this was a great film! Mel Gibson was perfectly cast as the Scottish hero, and the effort put into this one went above and beyond what Hollywood normally expends. Not since the biblical epics of the 50's and 60's have I seen a movie that impressed me this much! I loved this film!

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Summary: A pure, fascinating, extremely satisfying movie experience
Review: What can be said about this movie that can make people like it more? Nothing, that's what. This movie is perfect. Perfect story, perfect choreography, perfect musical score. This film left me with a sense of awe that bewildered me for a long time. If you haven't seen it, make sure you remedy that as soon as you can.

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Summary: The best....but where's the DVD???
Review: It is hard to believe that one of the best movies ever made is so over looked. This is truly my favorite film ever, and I looked for books on the making of it...none. I've looked for anything, and there is NOTHING!!! After all, it did win "Best Picture", not to mention the other awards!! Does that not count for anything anymore?? I can't believe that a DVD version has not come out for this movie. I'm afraid that when VHS movies go out of style or just "wear out", that this movie, and many others will be lost forever. This really needs to be made into a DVD version, and soon!!

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Summary: This is thee best movie ever!!!
Review: This is the best movie ever made, no doubt about it!!!Mel Gibbson makes the performance of his life if not the best performance ever. This movie has it all. It has the most incredible action seens ever made in a medieval movie, they make you feel like your right there.Emotions grip your heart through the entire movie. It cantains tear shedding sorrow, I fight for freedome that would inspire anybody, heartpounding excitment and courage and even romance.There is nothing this movie lacks and it gets it all done with out going over the edge. This movie puts Rob Roy to shame, you don't know what you've been missing until you see it!!

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Summary: A Great Movie
Review: This had to be one of the best movies I ever saw. It had everything from action to drama. The music was great and so was the acting. Even if Braveheart was not historically correct, it does not change the fact that it was a great movie that depicted medevil battle.

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Summary: Definitely one of the most passionate films ever.
Review: This movie will move your heart like no other. It takes you through love, courage, and so much passion it'll leave you in an emotional state. There are many great scenes along with some awesome film work.