DVD Review: Braveheart

Braveheart
2-Disc Collector's Edition
Directed by Mel Gibson
Starring Mel Gibson, Patrick MacGoohan
Paramount Home Video
Available Dec. 18, 2007

Twelve years. That’s how long it takes a Best Picture-winning, fiercely revered classic to descend into camp and cheese. Not even Titanic got there that fast (it was never that highly revered by anyone male and over the age of 13 at the time of its release). It’s almost quaint by now, isn’t it? This was the movie that made BEN-HURian epics fashionable again and if it weren’t for Braveheart's success, Lord of the Rings wouldn’t have been greenlit in its current incarnation. And it was made in a time that seems so long ago, when we didn’t think of Mel Gibson as… y’know… Mel Gibson...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!