TORONTO – The best Chris might be the one who dares to go full mullet.

Chris Pine gave us that, plus a coating of mud (and a hint of nudity), at Thursday night's glitzy opening of "Outlaw King" at the Toronto International Film Festival. The 14th-century Scottish film, which re-teams with his "Hell or High Water" director David Mackenzie, is basically a bloody "Braveheart 2," telling the story of how Scotland was born. quartered.

In the upcoming Netflix movie, Pine plays Robert the Bruce, Wallace's successor who went on to lead Scotland in over 20 years of battle against England. So how did Wonder Woman's on-again boyfriend do selling his brogue to the ever tough Toronto crowd?

Variety Stuart Oldham was a big fan.

'The Outlaw King' is Netflix's best big budget movie to date, "he tweeted. "Epic, brutal, surprisingly hilarious and tender, the # TIFF18 opener marks another solid collaboration between Chris Pine and director David McKenzie."

But the Hollywood Reporter's John DeFore said some might be snooze while they stream.

"What can be done to Scots, for whom Robert the Bruce is a national hero," Stateside states, "Something's a grind, something of a grind," nodding off occasionally as they watch the two and half-hour movies from their sofas. "

Matt Goldberg's Collider's spotted an undercooked script. "The best thing I can say about 'Outlaw King' is that it feels like going back as long as you do not know the paper-thin plot and characters," he wrote.

The film is for the Atlantic's David Sims, who called it a "methodical, extremely unromantic retelling of the Scottish War of Independence with lots of blood mud n 'guts," he tweeted. "I liked it a lot and am currently yelling at everyone with Aaron Taylor-Johnson-esque intensity."

Others heralded Pine's commitment to nudity for the role (including Variety's review).

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