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Apocalypto
Release Date:
December 8, 2006
Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Director: Mel Gibson
Screenwriter:
Mel Gibson, Farhad Safinia
Genre: Action, Adventure
MPAA Rating: Not Available
 
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From Academy Award® winning filmmaker Mel Gibson ("The Passion of The Christ," "Braveheart"), comes "Apocalypto": a heart stopping mythic action-adventure set against the turbulent end times of the once great Mayan civilization. When his idyllic existence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, a man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life. More here
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"Apocalypto" is a remarkable film
Todd McCarthy
Variety

Mel Gibson is always good for a surprise, and his latest is that "Apocalypto" is a remarkable film. Set in the waning days of the Mayan civilization, the picture provides a trip to a place one's never been before, offering hitherto unseen sights of exceptional vividness and power. In the wake of its director's recent outburst and unwanted publicity, commercial prospects remain anyone's guess, and those looking for a reason not to attend will undoubtedly find one, be it Gibson's tirade, the gore, the subtitles or outre subject matter...

To his credit, there is never a dull moment.
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter

This is no cheesy exploitation movie, though, but a first-rate epic build around one man's will to survive to rescue his family. In other words, in the good Hollywood tradition, it's got a hero, villain, damsel in distress, exotic natives and breathtaking vistas that evoke feelings of awe and dread. The guy knows how to make a heart-pounding movie; he just happens to be a cinematic sadist...

The Maya Are Us
Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine

Mel Gibson's latest film has a lot on its mind
The dim past--that place where the mindlessly cruel and the idealistically aspiring meet in vicious conflict--has been good to Mel Gibson. It brought him Oscars for Braveheart and hundreds of millions of dollars for The Passion of the Christ. It satisfies his directorial bloodlust and permits him to traffic in easily read moral metaphors about the issues of our own day...

Mel Gibson has made the weirdest, most violent movie of the year.
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

Promoting Mel Gibson's Apocalypto as Mel Gibson's Apocalypto is more than a matter of truth in advertising. The possessory drumroll is a declaration, a challenge, a promise: This is a movie by Mel Gibson, pals, in which everything one has ever loved, hated, been stirred by, or hooted at in the man's repertoire to date (both on and off screen) looks even bigger and crazier. So let the buyer beware — or be titillated. Gibson's preoccupation with torture, rage, psychosis, faith, male bonding, (fear of) homosexuality, sin, redemption, sadomasochism, and, for that matter, the fate of the rain forest — it's all here, in a movie for which Hieronymus Bosch might have drawn the storyboards...

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Official Website: Apocalypto.com
 



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