All English are portrayed as one dimensional slimy bastards. Imagine if any other nationality was portrayed that way in a film
shareAbsurd. How is the enemy portrayed in any film? Wow, there's a lot of World War II films which were "racist" against Germans!
shareIt's more or less the same as in The Patriot (2000).
shareThey are portrayed as particularly evil in this. They cast a lot of good actors who played their characters with that traditional english movie villain demeanour/accent caricature, especially King Edward, the Magistrate and the executioner.
Gibson's other period war movie, The Patriot, was even more heavy handed in showing the english as 2D bad guys to the point of being cartoonish. Braveheart wasn't as bad compared to that.
I remember Gibson getting a lot of heat from the English press for being a bit of an Anglophobe, which there is some truth to owing to his irish ancestry, but he didn't write Braveheart.