Gibson's Epic: Heart, Soul and Violence
Harper Barnes Post-Dispatch Critic, St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
"BRAVEHEART" Rating: R, violence, language, sexuality. Running time: 2:58.
IT'S unclear when Mel Gibson became a combination of Sam Peckinpaugh and Akira Kurosawa, but there's no question that "Braveheart" is one of the best epic movies of the '90s. Set in late 13th- and early 14th-century-Scotland, and based on the legendary exploits of the Scottish warrior William Wallace, it includes some of the most powerful battle scenes ever filmed for the modern wide screen, and yet it works on the human level as well.
Gibson stars as Wallace, whose ferocious nationalism was stoked with rage after British soldiers raped and murdered his wife. Gibson is fine as the populist …
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Article title: Gibson's Epic: Heart, Soul and Violence.
Contributors: Harper Barnes Post-Dispatch Critic - Author.
Newspaper title: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO).
Publication date: May 26, 1995.
Page number: 3C.
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