Okay, apparently this film is so "not" Scottish that it has trouble telling Irishmen from Scots, but hey, like I said, the director and writer are at least Scottish. with a mostly American and English primary cast. If you ask me, they should have made a Rob Roy a scotch, but I reckon this film compensates for any dishonor directed towards Rob Roy McGregoer's legacy as a Scotsman, because it's incredibly Scottish, or at least about as much as it can be as an American project. That joke was always going to be lame, but it would have perhaps been more effective if that premise wasn't radically different from the of the other 1995 epic I compared this film to, and if I didn't already emphasize that this story takes place in the 18th century, well before 1894, when they created the cocktail specifically in honor of the premiere of an operetta about this story. Sure, this film is about three quarters of an hour shorter than "Braveheart", but come on, where "Braveheart" dealt with subject matter as sweeping as the First War of Scottish Independence, this film is just a two-and-a-half-hour-long epic about some cocktail they created in 1894. Well, it still got more attention, which is shocking seeing as how this film seems to step up the game put down "Braveheart" on paper, what with its actually being directed and written by Scots, starring a man who was actually born and raised in Ireland, being set in the 18th century, - rather than the ostensibly less exciting 13th century - and, of course, being even more overlong, at least in theory. Jeez, I personally felt that "Braveheart" stood to be a bit more original, but Mel Gibson's Oscar winner literally only made it a month before it ripped off this other 1995, arguably overly gory, Scottish period epic starring someone of Irish blood.
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