This is a highly praised movie and it is a great movie, I just didn't like it. I found the acting weak for a best picture winner and the historical inaccuracies bothered me for some reason (and I've movies way worse historically wise and enjoyed them).
I found the passing somehow boring, long and lame. Even the dialogues seemed useless sometimes. I don't like the way they showed William Wallace as a barbarian while he was actually a honorable warrior. And the said romance is so "cheesy" and seemed totally out of place.
Maybe I'll give the movie a second watch just to see if I missed something. But for now it makes my personnal list of best picture winners that I question myself if they really deserved it? A lot of people put Rocky, Shakespeare in Love and American Beauty in that category, and see, I disagree. While I personnaly put Gladiator and Titanic in that category as well, a lot of people disagree. It is subjective.
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