The 18th-century Highland hero, in an intelligent, strikingly handsome representation. Not only is it set well geographically, in some of the planet's most glorious scenery, but it is also set well verbally, in a Well-Made Screenplay by Scotland's own Alan Sharp, crafty, witty, oftentimes bawdy: "Love is a dunghill, Betty, and I am but a cock that climbs upon it to crow." Alongside the average contemporary film script, it's like Shakespeare. The action doesn't often attain a true pitch of excitement, but it has its moments: the emergence out of the fog on the loch of Cunningham (Tim Roth's ripely hissable villain) and his men; the hero's ingenious escape from an impromptu hanging and his still more ingenious evasion of his chasers. With Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Brian Cox, Andrew Keir, Eric Stoltz; directed by Michael Caton-Jones. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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