Braveheart is such an amazing movie; richly detailed, Mel Gibson is an outstanding actor, and the cast isn't just a bunch of well-known actors and actresses cliched over and over again in the same movies. For those reasons, the movie is great, but the musical score makes the movie outstanding, to say the least. Horner is brilliant. You wouldn't be able to fully feel the movie without his music.. it is dynamically detailed and demonstrates perfection, setting high standards for other movies to TRY and live up to. I own the soundtrack and, though the movie is now old enough to almost be considered a classic-- in my opinion anyway-- I still find that the music gives me chills. The music is so elaborate and deomstrates all the emotions in the film wonderfully. It is the best music from any film, in my opinion.. honestly, I didn't expect any less from James Horner. His music is brilliant and that's all there is to it.