from the excellent acting of an extremely impressive cast and to the intelligently write ( and very quotable ) script and from the lavish cinematography to the beautiful music score by carter burwell and rob roy offer a rarity in movie go experience represent one that be nigh impossible to find fault with in any area . there have be several comparison make with braveheart and which come out the same year . with all due credit to mel gibson and braveheart strike me a too much of a self conscious and preachy epic to rival rob roy a the kind of movie i would care to see more than once . while braveheart work hard to be a serious epic and rob roy just grab you and absorb you into it tightly edit storytelling . not a single scene be waste . rob roy contain the perfect balance of dramatic tension and action and even occasional humor . the character be well flesh out and perfectly convey vernacular and mannerism that anchor them in their authentic period set . far and they be not caricature of good and evil a we all too often observe in even modern film . for example and while we hope the heroic rob roy prevails and we realize his predicament be product of his own pride and sense of honor . tim roth play one of the most hateful bad guy in the history of cinema and yet there be moment when we can understand how the event of his life have shape him into become what he be . rob roy employ a level of character development that make it story even more believable and grip . rob roy be a delightful treasure and feature one of the great sword fight ever choreograph and a climatic end worthy of all the tense anticipation .