Instead of how this common Scottish family reawakened Bruce’s spirit, it comes across more like how Bruce mended this family, which feels counterproductive to what the film was aiming for.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2024

...while the film runs too long, its meditates in a compelling way on how the Bruce found his sense of purpose in the needs of his own people....

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 23, 2024

It is not quite as stirring as it wants to be, but Gray's picture brims with passion and is still as accomplished as any historical drama worth watching.

| Original Score: 4 / 5 | Jul 28, 2020

Robert the Bruce can certainly find an audience with people who feel compelled to check out any movie related to Scottish history. For everyone else, the film is worth watching if you don't mind seeing an inferior spinoff to Braveheart.

| Jul 16, 2020

[With] accents that range from passable to comically bad...

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2020

As a clear passion project of Macfadyen... it's satisfying to see something so personal as this cross the finish line, make it out to a wide international audience, and ultimately be a film worth all of that investment.

| May 26, 2020

In "Robert The Bruce," which is directed by Richard Gray and written by Eric Belgau and Angus Macfadyen, the story being told is less about myth and more about reality.

| May 19, 2020

Light on action, but strong performances throughout in this relaxed historical biopic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 13, 2020

'Robert the Bruce' is an enjoyable sort-of-but-not-exactly spinoff of 'Braveheart.'

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 11, 2020

The use of traditional music lends additional authenticity; Mel Elias's score is excellent. Writers Macfadyen and Eric Belgau have done Robert the Bruce's epic struggle for independence cinematic justice...

| May 8, 2020

Robert the Bruce places too much emphasis on the secondary characters. The film could have been titled "Morag the Widow Saves Scotland."

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 1, 2020

[It] all seems to promise far more than this modest drama delivers.

| May 1, 2020

Robert the Bruce's ambitions are let down by a drifting, oddly fractured narrative, predictable plotting.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 29, 2020

Tedious exposition overshadows the intermittent action sequences, which hardly reflects the warrior legacy of its subject.

| Apr 27, 2020

In the final act, I started to get flashbacks from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi where the Ewoks are fighting the stormtroopers.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 25, 2020

Angus Macfadyen may have made his intentions for the film clear off-screen, but the finished product seems devoid of such momentum.

| Apr 25, 2020

A very peculiar, low budget way of giving us an entree into an enormously important historical figure... It doesn't have the scope to really do him justice.

| Apr 24, 2020

I liked it. I didn't think it completely worked, but I appreciated what it was trying to do.

| Apr 24, 2020

Angus Macfadyen clearly felt like this was a passion project. Unfortunately, it doesn't really reflect in the overall execution.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 24, 2020

If you are interested in the continuing story of Scottish independence, prepare for a scaled down take... Perhaps your mileage may vary depending on how invested you are in the character of Robert the Bruce fulfilling his destiny.

| Apr 24, 2020