10 Great Movies That Were Almost Ruined By Bad Editing

Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, Mel Gibson's Braveheart was a flawed masterpiece, and the majority of those flaws could have been remedied in the editing process. Traditionally, the award for Best Film Editing also goes to the Best Picture winner - about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing. Braveheart wasn't one of them.

There are a number of well publicised mistakes that made it to the final cut of Braveheart, the most famous (and most unforgivable) being the white car parked on a roadside during numerous battle scene shots. While it never jumps out at you, once you do notice the vehicle it becomes painfully obvious upon re-watches of the film, taking the viewer out of the period setting and out of the movie.

Editor Steven Rosenblum did a poor job across the board. Even without the random appearance of a machine that wouldn't be invented for hundreds of years, there are a number of other poor cuts that challenge the integrity of this epic war drama - duplicate shots are used within seconds of each other and crew/equipment is visible in a number of scenes. In fact, the film's climatic battle was riddled with bad editing.

As William Wallace and his extended Clan charge the English, Wallace's weapon is constantly changing. At first, the Scotsman brandishes a longsword, then, between shots, it inexplicably changes to a small axe. The weapon changes from a sword to an axe a total of five times during this single charge, and to top it off the axe appears to be made of rubber, flopping about ridiculously as Gibson attempts to look terrifying.