Braveheart: O Desafio do Guerreiro
Braveheart é baseado na vida lendária de Sir William Wallace, um rebelde escocês que encorajou e liderou o seu clã na luta contra a tirania do Rei Eduardo I, no século XIII. Wallace, começando por liderar poucos patriotas famintos, acabou por organizar um exército de guerreiros, sedentos de liberdade. Com ele, os escoceses recuperaram a esperança que levaria a Escócia a ser livre para sempre.
Directed by
Mel Gibson
Written by
Randall Wallace
Studio
Icon Entertainment International
Genre
Action, Drama, História, Guerra, Biography
Video
1080p
Audio
English (TRUEHD 7.1)
Subtitles
English
Cast
Mel Gibson
William Wallace
Catherine McCormack
Murron MacClannough
Sophie Marceau
Princess Isabelle
Patrick McGoohan
King Edward
Angus Macfadyen
Robert the Bruce
Brendan Gleeson
Hamish Campbell
James Robinson
Young William Wallace
James Cosmo
Campbell
Sean McGinley
MacClannough
Gerda Stevenson
Mother MacClannough
Mhairi Calvey
Young Murron MacClannough
Jeanne Marine
Nicolette
Sean Lawlor
Malcolm Wallace
Sandy Nelson
John Wallace
Alan Tall
Elder Stewart
Andrew Weir
Young Hamish Campbell
Brian Cox
Argyle Wallace
Peter Hanly
Edward, Prince of Wales
Stephen Billington
Phillip
Tommy Flanagan
Morrison
Rupert Vansittart
Lord Bottoms
Tam White
MacGregor
Ian Bannen
Robert Bruce Sr.
David O'Hara
Stephen, Irish Fighter
Peter Mullan
Veteran
David Gant
Chief Justice/Executioner
Malcolm Tierney
Magistrate
Martin Murphy
Lord Talmadge
Gerard McSorley
Cheltham
Bernard Horsfall
Balliol
Richard Leaf
Governor of York
Liam Carney
Sean
Ralph Riach
Priest No. 1
Barry McGovern
King's Advisor
John Kavanagh
Craig
Alun Armstrong
Mornay
Julie Austin
Mrs. Morrison
Alex Norton
Bride's Father
Michael Byrne
Smythe
William Scott-Masson
Corporal
Dean Lopata
Madbaker / Flagman
Donal Gibson
Stewart
Jimmy Chisholm
Faudron
John Murtagh
Lochlan
David McKay
Young soldier
Niall O'Brien
English General
Martin Dempsey
Drinker #1
Jimmy Keogh
Drinker #2
Joe Savino
Chief Assassin
Mal Whyte
Jailor
Paul Tucker
English Commander
Greg Jeloudov
Warrior #2 (uncredited)
Rana Morrison
Lady at Wedding (uncredited)
Jer O'Leary
English General (uncredited)
Joanne Bett
Toothless Girl
Robert Paterson
Priest No. 2
Martin Dunne
Lord Dolecroft
Fred Chiverton
Leper's Caretaker
Daniel Coll
York Captain
Bill Murdoch
Villager
Phil Kelly
Farmer
Reviews
Michael Wilmington
In this mix of historical tragedy and hip adventure, Gibson may be as galvanic a movie swashbuckler as Errol Flynn and Burt Lancaster were in their day.
Desmond Ryan
As the star of the new, epic-scaled Braveheart, Gibson celebrates yet another man of selfless valor. And as its director, he displays some daring of his own.
Jay Boyar
Braveheart is a big, brave, heartfelt motion picture, an epic that doesn't lose itself in its epic scale. How long has it been since this kind of picture has packed this much passion and punch?
Jami Bernard
A lavish, entertaining spectacle full of manly men, dastardly villains, rousing battles and women who easily see Mel's hero potential through all that messy hair.
John Hartl
Many movies deal with battlefield heroics. Few seriously attempt to define heroism.
Gene Siskel
In addition to staging battle scenes well, Gibson also manages to recreate the filth and mood of 700 years ago.
K. Austin Collins
Though Gibson's film isn't smart on this subject or even really aware of it, it has few modern rivals as an example of the ways a movie can rend history into compellingly simplistic myth.
Jay Carr
Braveheart is a big, strapping medieval sword-and-arrow movie with more fighting than romance, a surprising abundance of lush and sensuous imagery considering its brutal strife, and Gibson fiercely inciting it to stand up and march.
Anthony Puccinelli
There are too many betrayals, too many decapitations. We overload on grime and blood and rage. It's as if Gibson were trying to sustain an adrenaline rush for all 173 minutes of the film.
Ella Taylor
Epic in length only and peppered with sniggering homophobia, the homage to Himself drags on for three hours going on three years.
Rene Rodriguez
Braveheart wants to be nothing less than a chest-beating epic, and Gibson almost pulls it off. If the movie is not a cohesive whole, it still demonstrates an intoxicating love for adventure.
Bob Thomas
It's Mel Gibson's movie all the way, and he comes through triumphantly.
David Denby
Gibson puts us in the peculiar position of longing for him to die. Braveheart overstays its welcome. It's an epic looking not only for a point but an exit line.
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Powerful, confident and fiercely unapologetic about its movie-movie sensibility, Braveheart insists that escapism needn't be synonymous with mindlessness.
Henry Sheehan
Braveheart doesn't amount to much more than theatrical chest-thumping by Gibson. He clearly knows how to put a movie together, but he is going to have to get over himself before that knowledge does anyone any good.
Gene Seymour
Not quite [a classic]. Still, in orchestrating its raw energy, evocative beauty and senses-shattering violence to compelling emotional peaks, Mel Gibson shows he's got the goods to be as powerful a force in the director's chair as he is at the box office.
Bob Fenster
In only his second film behind the camera, Gibson has crafted a historical epic, Braveheart, that stands tall among the biggest and the best: Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur, El Cid.
Frank Bruni
[Braveheart] is stirring in ways that not too many movies are, and to a degree that not too many movies achieve. You fight it, but it wins.
Michael H. Price
Gibson is solidly on course as a director, and likewise in his element as an actor, once he stops being Mel Gibson.
Harper Barnes
It's unclear when Mel Gibson became a combination of Sam Peckinpah and Akira Kurosawa, but there's no question that Braveheart is one of the best epic movies of the '90s... Scene after scene takes your breath away with its sometimes cruel beauty.