Rob Roy had the unfortunate timing to come out around the same time as Braveheart. Just like all things Hollywood, stories lie in trends. If it's not volcanoes and asteroid events, it's everything from superheroes to fairy tales (two Snow White movies are incoming and ABC's Once Upon a Time heavily relies on the innocent Apple-eating Princess to good effect).
While Braveheart is a great film about a Scottish rebel, so is Rob Roy. Albeit an entirely different film based on an entirely different hero in an entirely different era. Can I use the word "entirely" well or not?
The movie is based on the real-life person known as Robert Roy MacGregor who was a Scottish cattle rancher that became something of a Robin Hood over a financial dispute when he defaulted on a loan.
I can't swear to the movie's authenticity, nor do I care to. It's a phenomenal movie with a phenomenal performance from Liam Neeson who as my articles will continue to prove has ALWAYS been a badarse. The ONLY reason this movie was forgotten is because it was looked at as the poor step-cousin to Braveheart. The truth is that this movie is neither trying to be Braveheart or has anything to do with Braveheart besides being set in Scotland.
I hate seeing good movies get the shaft because of blatant ignorance. Don't we have enough love in our hearts for Scottish folklore to love both of these movies equally and in different ways?
Not to mention this movie has the best hiding in a dead carcass scene you will EVER see on film and one of the most badass swordfights of all-time.
Oh and then there's this:
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