Braveheart Reviews
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[The film is] well-intentioned and ambitious, but is disappointingly flawed.
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| Original Score: +1 out of -4..+4
Slant Magazine
So inspiring is his message that my own girlfriend channeled it, in the warning I received prior to my reviewing the film: You'd better love it, or I'll disembowel you.
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| Original Score: 2/4
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Nick's Flick Picks
Gibson hews to a style that is visually elaborate without ever being visually complicated, scraping away the traces of any irony or dimension from every shot, every scene.
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| Original Score: C-
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A vanity project if ever there was one.
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| Original Score: C
Everybody knows that a non-blubbering clause is standard in all movie stars' contracts. Too bad there isn't one banning self-indulgence when they direct.
Braveheart opts to turn cowardly, settling for the magnification of Gibson's idol status, forfeiting the complex, more nebulous magnificence of the real Sir William Wallace and virtually excising the strategic brilliance of Robert The Bruce.
At times the film seems an obsessive ode to Mel Gibson machismo.
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| Original Score: 2/4
An action epic with the spirit of the Hollywood swordplay classics and the grungy ferocity of The Road Warrior.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
With its clashing armies, heartstopping action, and grand sense of romance, this is the sort of film it's a pleasure to see and review.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Radio Times
It succeeds in bringing to life the reality of Scottish patriotism and brilliantly captures the spirit of revolution.
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| Original Score: 4/5
eFilmCritic.com
For pure, blood-soaked "guy flick" grandeur, few movies can touch this one.
| Original Score: 4.5/5
Antagony & Ecstasy
Completely honest, and completely eager, and subtle as an iron hammer to the skull.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Common Sense Media
Mel Gibson's Oscared, bloody Scottish spectacle.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Combustible Celluloid
A great big splendorific Hollywood epic that's not exactly original or cliche-free, but fairly satisfying.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Filmcritic.com
A vastly entertaining and powerful film.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Flick Filosopher
Braveheart is history the way it should be told, full of sex and treachery and battle and passion and Mel Gibson in a kilt.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Movie Metropolis
Gibson manages to keep his epic afloat by solidly grounding Wallace in the viewer's heart and mind.
| Original Score: 8/10
