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100Offeris an exhilarating, and occasionally touching, experience that has viewers leaving the theater caught up in an afterglow of wonder. These days, heros like William Wallace are as rare as motion picture displays of this high, uncompromising quality.
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100Tempers moments of despair with deliriously romantic passages abetted by James Horner's traditionally lush score and photography by John Toll ("Legends of the Fall's" Oscar winner).
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One of the most spectacular entertainments in years.
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90Startlingly vigorous and entertaining piece of work.
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Thrilling, a grand cinematic adventure -- beautifully handled myth-making from Gibson, who, by the way, is just fine in the lead.
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88An action epic with the spirit of the Hollywood swordplay classics and the grungy ferocity of "The Road Warrior."
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88At its best, it's an exhilaratingly grandiose Highland fling. [24 May 1995, Tempo, p.1]
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80Looks like a true epic...even if it is both bloody and bloody long.
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80The sort of massive vanity piece that would be easy to disparage if it didn't essentially deliver.
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75Despite a formidable effort and occasional grace, there's something cowardly about Braveheart -- it's an aspiring giant with a diminutive soul.
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70Gibson's raw energy and storytelling power in Braveheart are undeniable. If the film doesn't meet his ambitions, it's because he set the bar so high.
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70The graphic battles may grow repetitious toward the end, the final scenes are almost sadistically drawn out, and the script often lacks humor. But this movie moves.
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A completely adequate modern facsimile of the classic romantic epic.
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67Braveheart features some of the most enthralling combat sequences in years, and the excessive ferocity of the violence is part of the thrill.
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His film would benefit from more subtlety and tighter editing, but as both director and star, Gibson takes the story by the hilt and plunges forward, as single-minded as Wallace screaming into battle.
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60A massive, sweaty, frequently silly epic that nevertheless delivers enough brute pleasure to pass a rainy afternoon.
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Never tries to confuse our loyalties or question the strategies of our hero or bring home the all-embracing soul-destroying horrors of war for all sides. Braveheart may be rip-roaring, but it isn't all that brave.
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50Braveheart comes up short by beating the drums of human treachery and violence so loudly they become assaults.
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30Braveheart is too much, too late.
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20A rambling disappointment.
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