This movie ranked number one for many years in my list of favorite movies. But now has been outranked by Monster-in-Law. Nevertheless, with Braveheart I was impressed by the acting, the passion, the energy and the way William Wallace displayed his love for a woman. I suppose that stuck out to me back then when it became my favorite movie because I hadn’t seen a man respond to loss of his wife to death in such a manner. I guess if you were William Wallace and in a land that he resided in that you would be able to take the law into your own hands or whatever. I was more drawn to the love story than what the movie’s initial intent may have been behind it. I wondered would a man care for me that much, that if I am murdered he’d avenge my death? I knew a couple of guys that I felt might do something if I were but I don’t think it would be to the extent of this. But that was back then, don’t care if a guy would or not now. Nothing against dudes, just no interest there.

Prior to marking this my favorite movie I had not lost a wife. Heck, I have not even been married. But years pass and I experienced what it was like to lose a loved one at the hands of another human being. Was I feeling Braveheart in a different way after that? Oh hell yes! This was a man with nothing to lose; had fear fearing him. When you piss off a person who hasn’t a thing to lose, then that makes for one dangerous person. I loved his rage displayed. Was feeling every slice, every cut, stab, bang, whap and violent moment within this film against those that had their hand in the killing of Wallace’s wife. Same for those men who’s wives were taken from them by those with high authority to be slept with before the husbands did on their wedding night, or something like that. Foul play! I was in my seat as rage boiled inside of me as I thought, “Get that motha’fucka! Beat … his …. ass!” at each strike as I could feel my fists forming. I’m not a violent person, never been in a single fight in my life (came close against a male to defend my twin sister). But man was I feeling the energy of this movie!

Mel Gibson, did an awesome job in the making of this movie and acting in it. I loved it the first time and still love it today. I didn’t like the ending, but this movie was great! There are scenes that will make you twitch and your head go to the side and back like “damn”, “ooo”, “shit”, “that had to hurt”. I especially liked the part he trotted in on his horse into the sleeping quarters of one of the dudes opposing him and bashed his head in with a spiked metal ball attached to a chain. Man! Rage is a beautiful sight to see when you can relate and the reason justifiable! I have never bashed anyone’s head in or anything but I damn sure have felt rage to that magnitude. When I thought of my other sister (my oldest sister) who was brutally murdered by a guy she was seeing at the time, the photos of how she was found in the woods flashed before my eyes as I watched this film. Every bit of anger, rage, and roar I was feeling so much so that had you put me in the same room as my oldest sister’s murderer and gave me a metal ball that had spikes attached to a chain, I would most certainly have tore his shit up! Braveheart evoked feelings in me that had me feeling wicked.

It was unfortunate that all those other people died in the process of him getting the one that killed his wife, though. And I was not happy that he let the motha’fucka (that killed his wife) die “easy”. But I guess it was “fair”. Eye for an eye and [neck for a neck]. The ending of the movie had me thinking, “Man, that’s bullshit!”. If you have similar tastes in movies as I do, then more than likely you will enjoy this one. I’d write a little synopsis of the film but this is my review of it. Besides, at the time I didn’t read any type of synopsis. I was like 15 or something when I first saw this years ago and my pop got the movie for the whole family to watch. So if it were something my dad picked up, it was sure to be worth watching. If I can say anything good about my dad-eo, it is his taste in movies was on point (most of the time).