from Paramount
starring Alun Armstrong, Stephen Billington, Mhairi Calvey, James Cosmo, Brian Cox
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Editorial ReviewA stupendous historical saga, Braveheart won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for star Mel Gibson. He plays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish commoner who unites the various clans against a cruel English King, Edward the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan). The scenes of hand-to-hand combat are brutally violent, but they never glorify the bloodshed. There is such enormous scope to this story that it works on a smaller, more personal scale as well, essaying love and loss, patriotism and passion. Extremely moving, it reveals Gibson as a multitalented performer and remarkable director with an eye for detail and an understanding of human emotion. (His first directorial effort was 1993's Man Without a Face.) The film is nearly three hours long and includes several plot tangents, yet is never dull. This movie resonates long after you have seen it, both for its visual beauty and for its powerful story. --Rochelle O'Gorman
Features:
- Closed-captioned
- Color
- NTSC
Customer Reviews:
- Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
- Special edition video much improved over original
I had heard that the video quality on the special edition version was better than the original DVD release. On my plasma screen, the original appeared washed out in many scenes, as if the video was too compressed to handle the source material. In fact, the original is one of the worst DVD's I own in terms of video quality. Fortunately, the special edition version exhibits none of those issues, at least not nearly to the same degree. This fabulous movie seems to have finally gotten the DVD treatment it... more info
- educational viewpoint
As a high-school teacher for history and English foundations, I must utilize movies as a visual aide supplement to help them connect with the characters, setting, dialogue... I strongly recommend using this dvd to support your curriculum to teach on all levels of student learning (auditory, kinesthetic, visual).
- An Epic for Sure
One has only to read the most helpful reviews at this point to know all about the films details that all come together to make this film work as well as It did. Cinematography, SUPPORTING ACTORS, Score, Etc.
And will go down as one of the all time greats and have comparisons to "Dances with Wolves" having the star as producer and Director. My thoughts are to make it a 3 hour epic they spent too much time In the first hour developing the story when they could have cut that part of the story In half... more info
- Very pleased with my purchase
I ordered a copy of this movie from a reseller and I am very happy with the purhcase.
As for the movie, you don't need my review...This movie is great both historically and aesethically.
A+++
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