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- 2020
- TV-14
- Screen Media Films
- 2 h 4 m
- 2020
- TV-14
- Screen Media Films
- 2 h 4 m
Summary King Robert the Bruce is injured and on the run from the English army. On the brink of defeat, a widow and her family nurse him back to health and join The Bruce as he sets out to claim the long-awaited freedom of Scotland.
Directed By: Richard Gray
Written By: Eric Belgau, Angus Macfadyen
- 2020
- TV-14
- Screen Media Films
- 2 h 4 m
- 2020
- TV-14
- Screen Media Films
- 2 h 4 m
Summary King Robert the Bruce is injured and on the run from the English army. On the brink of defeat, a widow and her family nurse him back to health and join The Bruce as he sets out to claim the long-awaited freedom of Scotland.
Directed By: Richard Gray
Written By: Eric Belgau, Angus Macfadyen
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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9% Positive
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73% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
18% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
42
9% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
73% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
18% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Robert the Bruce is gorgeously filmed by cinematographer John Garrett, making the most of every exquisitely lit crag of the Scottish countryside.
Robert the Bruce is too long by at least a half-hour for the surprisingly slight tale it has to tell.
McGowan knows how to invest ire with intelligence, and he has mastered the art of making riding a horse look like a form of strutting. When he’s onscreen, the film vibrates. When you’re watching MacFadyen’s Robert, it swells with nobility and deflates at the same time.
There’s a pleasing humility and introspection to this Bruce — a ruler no longer sure if his patriotic purpose is worth the carnage. His joints may be stiffer than his resolve; but, in placing the warrior temporarily aside, Macfadyen and his director have helped us more clearly to see the man.
For an uncertainly paced and fabricated historical side quest, much of Robert The Bruce is painlessly watchable.
There are rousing landscape shots, a fair amount of bone-crunching, and a dash of brooding patriotism – and a welcome attempt to look at history from the view of ordinary folk – but the storytelling is downbeat and basic.
Suffers mightily from its limited budget and narrative scope.
Production Company
Emerald Way Productions,
Ponderosa Films,
Screen Media Films,
Yellow Brick Films LLC
Release Date Apr 24, 2020
Duration 2 h 4 m
Rating TV-14
Tagline He Empowered a People, He Fought for Freedom, To Defy An Empire.
Website
http://www.yellowbrickfilms.net/
Awards
Edinburgh International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
