Review of Rob Roy

Rob Roy (1995)
7/10
Tour de Force from Roth
1 December 2003
Not much of a film really. Liam Neeson is about as convincing a Scotsman as Groucho Marx would be, you just want Jessica Lange to get raped and the pair of them are just too bloody holier-than-thou to be true.

But Tim Roth? - brilliant! He sneers his way through the entire film, when he isn't crawling to John Hurt that is. Even his name is a sneer! What a loathsome character he portrays and he does it so well, ably aided and abetted by the masterful Brian Cox, doing quite nicely in Hollywood in his old age.

As for the rest of it? Rubbish! Certainly not a patch on its contemporary 'Braveheart'!
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