I really want to watch Braveheart, I heard it’s awesome. But I’m extremely sensitive to gore and violence and Braveheart I’m sure has plenty of it.
I can watch movies like LOTR and The Patriot, but that is the farthest extent of violence and blood that I can tolerate.
So how gorey is it? Is it at the same level as The Patriot? If so, I’ll watch it.
Thanks and God Bless you all!
Violence & Gore: 10
-Around 10-15 bodies hang from nooses in an old barn/outhouse. Shots of their dead, pale faces.
- A recently deceased man with a gaping chest wound lies dead on a stone table, being washed. This man is shortly after seen in a dream sequence.
- A brief fist fight and struggle breaks out between English soldiers and Scots villagers, a knife is held to a man’s throat.
- A young woman is cornered by soldiers, and slaps the aggressor in defense. She is thrown to the ground forcibly and sexually molested by a soldier. She bites his cheek drawing blood, and is smacked in the face. A rescuer comes to her aid, hurling a sizable rock into a soldier’s head and throwing another head first into the side of a stone hut.
- A woman on horseback is struck in the face with a long stick, knocking her semi-unconscious
- A soldier slits a woman’s throat with a knife, the actual knife attack is off screen, only her face is shown
- A soldier is struck hard in the face with a pair of nun-chuks, he is knocked out cold, another soldier has a short hook plunged into his neck, with a close-up of the bloody wound. A soldier has his leg cut off at the knee with a long sword; a shot of the bloody wound. Another soldier is hit in the chest by a flying sword and is keels back in shock before dying.
-Villager’s attack soldiers; a large stone is slammed into a soldier’s head, a soldier is hit with a long ‘gardening tool’, a soldier is knocked down and has a large hammer swung into the side of his head, a spear is hurled into a soldier’s chest. A soldier is headbutted, lifted up and thrown onto a wooden spike, impaling him graphically. A dead soldier is used as a meat shield as arrows hit his body.
- A soldier has his throat slit with a knife, as before, the actual knife attack is very brief
- A man is slain with a long handled axe, although only the swinging axe is shown and no blood or gore is seen.
- A man is killed by a flying sword, after trying to assassinate a figure of importance
- A huge shower of arrows rain upon a small army on a battlefield, arrows hitting legs, torso’s, buttock’s; quite abit of blood is seen.
- A cavalry charge is stopped by a row of sharpened wooden spears; multiple shots of spears plunging into horse’s bodies causing bloody wounds. The mounted troops are dragged off and mercilessly slain with swords and axes, a soldier is struck with an axe through the top of the head, causing a spray of blood.
- 2 armies clash in battle, bloody and graphic depictions of; a leg being hacked off at the knee, a knife plunged into a man’s nose, an impalement with full length of sword, a beheading, an arm crushed with an axe, a head caved in with an overhead sword swing, a stab to the groin, a soldier is struck with a sword, then trampled under horse charge.
- A scene showing the aftermath of the bloody battle; dead or dying bodies litter the battlefield, many covered in blood.
- Boiling oil is poured down onto troops trying to raid a castle by the castle’s defenders, causing the wounded to writhe in agony on the ground. The oil is then lit, as men are seen staggering around engulfed in flames.
- A severed head is pulled out of a box, a brief close-up of the sagging, decaying face. Very shortly after this a young man is hurled from a window and falls to his death many feet below.
- Flaming arrows are fired onto a patch of land soaked with flammable liquids, causing the soldiers occupying the land to become engulfed in flames and flail around in shock.
- Several men are hit in the torso with arrow’s during a battle scene, mostly fatal wounding, a man is stabbed repeatedly.
- A man’s face is crushed instantly upon being hit with a ball on chain swung with great force.
- A recently slain man is dropped from a balcony onto a table as men sit for a meal, a close-up of a bloody gaping neck wound.
- A small unit of soldiers are forced into a stone hut, doused in oil through the straw roof and burned alive. The sound of screaming can be heard throughout the scene.
- A man is set upon by a unit of soldiers and beaten with sticks until unconscious and bloodied.
- A man is stretched by his hands and ankles as part of a public torture, his face contorting in pain. The torture continues with a brutal throttling by way of a noose. The man, gasping and struggling to stand, is placed and tied to a horizontal wooden cross where he is then gutted and finally beheaded with a long axe. Only the man’s face is shown during the gutting, and the actual beheading is off screen.
- Overall, the violence in this film is practically non-stop. This movie contains probably some of the most graphic violence ever put on screen.
- On a high-low scale of blood and gore for extended battle sequences, Braveheart is probably second only to Saving Private Ryan. Unless the kids in question are very mature, I would not recommend showing this film to any kid under the age of 1
November 27th, 2009 at 1:25 am
Violence & Gore: 10
-Around 10-15 bodies hang from nooses in an old barn/outhouse. Shots of their dead, pale faces.
- A recently deceased man with a gaping chest wound lies dead on a stone table, being washed. This man is shortly after seen in a dream sequence.
- A brief fist fight and struggle breaks out between English soldiers and Scots villagers, a knife is held to a man’s throat.
- A young woman is cornered by soldiers, and slaps the aggressor in defense. She is thrown to the ground forcibly and sexually molested by a soldier. She bites his cheek drawing blood, and is smacked in the face. A rescuer comes to her aid, hurling a sizable rock into a soldier’s head and throwing another head first into the side of a stone hut.
- A woman on horseback is struck in the face with a long stick, knocking her semi-unconscious
- A soldier slits a woman’s throat with a knife, the actual knife attack is off screen, only her face is shown
- A soldier is struck hard in the face with a pair of nun-chuks, he is knocked out cold, another soldier has a short hook plunged into his neck, with a close-up of the bloody wound. A soldier has his leg cut off at the knee with a long sword; a shot of the bloody wound. Another soldier is hit in the chest by a flying sword and is keels back in shock before dying.
-Villager’s attack soldiers; a large stone is slammed into a soldier’s head, a soldier is hit with a long ‘gardening tool’, a soldier is knocked down and has a large hammer swung into the side of his head, a spear is hurled into a soldier’s chest. A soldier is headbutted, lifted up and thrown onto a wooden spike, impaling him graphically. A dead soldier is used as a meat shield as arrows hit his body.
- A soldier has his throat slit with a knife, as before, the actual knife attack is very brief
- A man is slain with a long handled axe, although only the swinging axe is shown and no blood or gore is seen.
- A man is killed by a flying sword, after trying to assassinate a figure of importance
- A huge shower of arrows rain upon a small army on a battlefield, arrows hitting legs, torso’s, buttock’s; quite abit of blood is seen.
- A cavalry charge is stopped by a row of sharpened wooden spears; multiple shots of spears plunging into horse’s bodies causing bloody wounds. The mounted troops are dragged off and mercilessly slain with swords and axes, a soldier is struck with an axe through the top of the head, causing a spray of blood.
- 2 armies clash in battle, bloody and graphic depictions of; a leg being hacked off at the knee, a knife plunged into a man’s nose, an impalement with full length of sword, a beheading, an arm crushed with an axe, a head caved in with an overhead sword swing, a stab to the groin, a soldier is struck with a sword, then trampled under horse charge.
- A scene showing the aftermath of the bloody battle; dead or dying bodies litter the battlefield, many covered in blood.
- Boiling oil is poured down onto troops trying to raid a castle by the castle’s defenders, causing the wounded to writhe in agony on the ground. The oil is then lit, as men are seen staggering around engulfed in flames.
- A severed head is pulled out of a box, a brief close-up of the sagging, decaying face. Very shortly after this a young man is hurled from a window and falls to his death many feet below.
- Flaming arrows are fired onto a patch of land soaked with flammable liquids, causing the soldiers occupying the land to become engulfed in flames and flail around in shock.
- Several men are hit in the torso with arrow’s during a battle scene, mostly fatal wounding, a man is stabbed repeatedly.
- A man’s face is crushed instantly upon being hit with a ball on chain swung with great force.
- A recently slain man is dropped from a balcony onto a table as men sit for a meal, a close-up of a bloody gaping neck wound.
- A small unit of soldiers are forced into a stone hut, doused in oil through the straw roof and burned alive. The sound of screaming can be heard throughout the scene.
- A man is set upon by a unit of soldiers and beaten with sticks until unconscious and bloodied.
- A man is stretched by his hands and ankles as part of a public torture, his face contorting in pain. The torture continues with a brutal throttling by way of a noose. The man, gasping and struggling to stand, is placed and tied to a horizontal wooden cross where he is then gutted and finally beheaded with a long axe. Only the man’s face is shown during the gutting, and the actual beheading is off screen.
- Overall, the violence in this film is practically non-stop. This movie contains probably some of the most graphic violence ever put on screen.
- On a high-low scale of blood and gore for extended battle sequences, Braveheart is probably second only to Saving Private Ryan. Unless the kids in question are very mature, I would not recommend showing this film to any kid under the age of 1
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November 27th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Well, now you don’t have to watch it because Jeffy pretty much summed it all up! LOL! It’s a WONDERFUL movie and is quite bloody, but the scenes are quick. Just close your eyes during those.
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November 27th, 2009 at 2:30 am
It’s a great movie and worth the gore. It’s not like it’s the stupid gore in a slasher movie. You’ll be too enthralled by the story to worry about it….
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November 27th, 2009 at 3:06 am
braveheart is one best movie in hollywood so watch the movie
and come violence i think that common
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November 27th, 2009 at 3:50 am
In the movie The Patriot, there is a scene where a soldier’s head gets ripped off by a bouncing canon ball.
If that didn’t bother you, Braveheart should be fine.
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November 27th, 2009 at 3:56 am
its like a notch above The Patriot
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