Braveheart (1995)

Braveheart rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.3/10· 1.2M votes

Rotten Tomatoes74%

Metacritic68%

TMDb7.945/10· 11K votes

With 74% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.3/10 on IMDb and 68/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Braveheart

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

Cast of Braveheart

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  Mel Gibson

  as William Wallace

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  Catherine McCormack

  as Murron MacClannough

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  Sophie Marceau

  as Princess Isabelle

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  Patrick McGoohan

  as King Edward

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  Angus Macfadyen

  as Robert the Bruce

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  Brendan Gleeson

  as Hamish Campbell

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  James Robinson

  as Young William Wallace

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  James Cosmo

  as Campbell

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  Sean McGinley

  as MacClannough

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  Gerda Stevenson

  as Mother MacClannough

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  Mhairi Calvey

  as Young Murron MacClannough

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  Jeanne Marine

  as Nicolette

Braveheart facts

Budget

$72M

Box office

$213.2M

Collection

Braveheart Collection

Our take on Braveheart

Mel Gibson's 1995 historical epic follows Scottish warrior William Wallace, whose grief over the killing of his bride and childhood love hardens into open rebellion. After he cuts down a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers, his village rises up, and soon the anger spreads until the whole country is in revolt against English rule. Sweeping across action, drama, history and war, the film pairs large-scale medieval battles with a personal story of loss and defiance. Grand in scale and unabashedly emotional, it suits viewers who want stirring, blood-and-mud historical spectacle. Approach it as rousing myth-making rather than a careful history lesson.