ry castle.Meanwhile King Longshanks is distracted by his war with France and allows hisweek son an opportunity to prove himself by bringing Wallace to English justice. The son'sineptness soon leads to full scale battle. A situation that requires the support of theScottish Lords, an infighting self interested bunch of old men. On the occasion of the firstmajor battle, Wallace is able to convince three Lords into helping. Through the use ofsome brilliant tactics he successfully defeats the English forces and his legend grows tonew heights.Wallace's successes continue often hampered by betrayal from the Scottish Lordsand the treachery of the English King. He finds love again, loses many good friends andeventually finds peace at the hands of the English interrogators. He is brought before acourt and told to confess to treason. He refuses. He is given the choice to confess andhave a quick and painless death or to die a slow and painful public death. He remainssilent. The next day Wallace is brought out into the public square where he will bepublicly executed. He goes through a series of tortures such as being stretched, anddrawn and quartered. But probably the most graphic torture of all is then he is guttedand the torture wont stop until he says, mercy. He never does and he is beheaded.The cinematography in this movie is tremendous. The three huge battle scenes areamazing feats of cinematic genius. There are probably upwards of one thousand extras ineach of these scenes. The camera zooms all the way out for the initial charge of thearmies at one another. When the two armies mesh and the hand to hand combat begins itzooms in all the way to the point where you can see an arm or a leg being chopped off. The filming of these battle scenes must have taken outstanding choreography. Mel Gibsonnot only did a great job acting in this movie, he also did a fantastic job directing this greatmovie. Another great cinematic scene is in th...
