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Braveheart at 30: Mel Gibson’s gory, hokey Oscar winner plays like a biblical epic

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Braveheart at 30: Mel Gibson’s gory, hokey Oscar winner plays like a biblical epic

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The 1995 best picture winner is less interested in historical fact and more in rousing fantasy and makes for a telling portrait of its troubled maker

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It plays out more like the 1959 film Ben-Hur which is another great film with very little to do with reality.
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  Is Ben-Hur not a biblical epic?

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