Any Gibson-haters hoping to see the heart ripped out of his success may well find themselves disappointed by Apocalypto's relative merits.
Apocalypto (2006)
Runtime: 2 hrs 18 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Dalia Hernandez, Mayra Serbulo, Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Trujillo
DVD Info
Release:
Oct 5, 2008
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
- Dolby Digital DTS 5.1 Surround - English
- Dolby Digital - Mayan
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - Mel Gibson - Director; Farhad Safinia - Co-Writer
- Deleted Scenes - Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary By Director Mel Gibson and Co-Writer Farhad Sofinia
- Featurette - BECOMING MAYAN: Making Of APOCALPTO
Reviews
Pathologically brilliant. It is bizarre, stomach-turningly violent and frequently inspired.
With impressive direction and strong performances this is a hugely enjoyable action thriller, even if the violence may be a little on the extreme side.
This is by no means a boring film, then, but it is a grotesque one, and that brings it pretty close to camp.
While the ancient dialects and weighty quotations suggest an arthouse epic, Apocalypto is basically a really good period popcorn flick.
With a plot that could be set almost anywhere, Gibson recreates the ancient Mayan civilisation on screen for this deeply entertaining action thriller.
How can we be inspired by the spirit of Jaguar Paw when the film's telling us that people stink and the great cultures of the Americas were the architects of their own demise?
Close enough, I suppose, if you want to reduce the entire end of a civilization to a single adventure story.
If any other director had made the spellbinding, visceral Mayan epic 'Apocalypto,' the film would be championed and unquestionably be discussed in Oscar worthy terms.
It's escapism - the world would be a lot safer if good and evil were so clearly defined - and it's something that Mel Gibson proves (once again) that he does very, very well in Apocalypto.
Mel Gibson propone una discutible aproximación a la civilización maya que es, ante todo, un intenso relato de acción y heroísmo.
To cut to the chase, there should be an NC-17 rating to describe the over-the- top violence in Apocalypto. But the strong of stomach will find an edge-of-your-seat, heart-pounding, technically amazing movie.
No matter what your interest is in the film -- entertainment or information -- Apocalypto delivers the goods, and then some.
Gibson has grown increasingly bald-faced with his thematic (if you can call them that) preoccupations, dropping the markers in his path like bloody footprints.
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