Braveheart (1995)
When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, William Wallace leads his people in a rebellion against the tyranny of the English King, who rules Scotland with an iron fist.
1939, Elgin, Scotland, UK
1966
20 November 1930, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
25 February 1938, Manchester, England, UK
7 November 1943, London, England, UK
25 January 1954, Dublin, Ireland
29 March 1955, Dublin, Ireland
8 February 1946, Dublin, Ireland, UK
1948, Dublin, Ireland
7 May 1988, Glasgow, UK
21 September 1963, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
17 July 1946, Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK
26 December 1980, Ayr, Scotland, UK
21 July 1942, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
27 January 1950, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
18 February 1963, Chard, Somerset, England, UK
February 24, 2014
Braveheart is a stouthearted, old-fashioned hero movie in which honorable Scottish underdogs fight nasty British nobles. It lacks refinement, but it's a satisfying war story (and mediocre love story) in the grand Hollywood tradition.
February 24, 2014
A lavish, entertaining spectacle full of manly men, dastardly villains, rousing battles and women who easily see Mel's hero potential through all that messy hair.
February 24, 2014
Many movies deal with battlefield heroics. Few seriously attempt to define heroism.
February 24, 2014
Mel Gibson's Braveheart is a rousing, romantic battle epic featuring a cast of thousands, many without heads or arms.
February 24, 2015
This is by no means a bad effort in the historical epic genre, since Gibson has made himself into a more than passable director and, for the battles of Stirling Bridge and Falkirk alone, deserves an Oscar of some sort.
February 24, 2014
As the star of the new, epic-scaled Braveheart, Gibson celebrates yet another man of selfless valor. And as its director, he displays some daring of his own.
February 24, 2014
In addition to staging battle scenes well, Gibson also manages to recreate the filth and mood of 700 years ago.
February 24, 2014
The screenplay says repeatedly that thinking is more important than fighting, yet problems are always met with muscle-power in the movie, which wallows in violence and vengeance every chance it gets.
February 24, 2014
The movie is full of battle scenes, all of them interchangeable.
February 24, 2014
Braveheart has a gut-wrenching, bone-breaking, sword-thwacking verve.
February 24, 2014
Well-made but uneven, Braveheart has some grand moments -- but few pertain to Gibson's less than charismatic performance as the resourceful hero.
February 24, 2014
Mel Gibson throws his whole heart into a role. No one acts with more conviction, and his errors are honest ones.
