Will
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Post by Will on Nov 10, 2006 21:18:28 GMT
'Braveheart' looks like an epic, and it sounds like an epic, but it doesn't feel like one. Although the action sequences are well staged and the production design is handsome, Mel Gibson's direction is self-consciously sweeping, too constructed to have the desired effect, while the dialogue has little impact, the length is really, well, long, and the performances are no more than competent (apart from Patrick McGoohan, he's great). The movie sledgehammers you into being moved with its battles, love affairs, beheadings and speeches, all coated in James Horner's James Horneresque score, but really it's just a decent enough TV-movie-looking wedge of barely-historical melodrama, and nothing more.
**1/2
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Post by •°o.O emily O.o°• on Jan 2, 2007 21:52:20 GMT
I watched this looong film t'other day for the first time, and I must agree with Will...it's just trying too hard to be epic. Although there is more to it than Mel shouting "Freedoooom!" it all happens too fast to really care. Even when a really nice shot shines through, you can see all too clearly on Directer/producer/star Mel Gibson's face that he's thinking "God I'm good...let's hold this shot a little longer." After winning me over in Hamlet, I think he should stick to the acting... But yeh, at least the settings are nice emily
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