Synopsis
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he 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.
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Cast
- Rudy YoungbloodJaguar Paw
- Raoul Max TrujilloZero Wolf
- Gerardo TaracenaMiddle Eye
- Iazua LariosSky Flower
- Antonio MonroyChilam
- María Isabel Díaz LagoMother in Law
- Dalia HernándezSeven
- Jonathan BrewerBlunted
- Morris BirdyellowheadFlint Sky
- Carlos Emilio BáezTurtles Run
Recommendations
- 100
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. - 100
L.A. Weekly
For those of us who prefer to judge Gibson solely in terms of his art, the movie is a virtuosic piece of action cinema -- particularly in its second half...And while there has been no shortage of recent films that decry the horrors of war and man's inhumanity to his fellow man, I know of none other quite this sickeningly powerful. - 88
Rolling Stone
Gibson has made a film of blunt provocation and bruising beauty. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
The guy knows how to make a heart-pounding movie; he just happens to be a cinematic sadist. - 80
Newsweek
The film is mostly successful in transporting the viewer to another age: the costumes, the body markings, the fierce Mayan masks, all feel right. And keeping the dialogue in subtitles was a smart move. Even better are the faces, which never fail to fascinate. But for all the anthropological research that went into the movie, what is Apocalypto trying to say? - 78
Austin Chronicle
Apocalypto is a dazzling achievement. Not only does it showcase a civilization little seen on the silver screen, the film (which opens with a quote from Will Duant) also advances larger questions about the natural and unnatural life cycles of civilizations. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
There's so much dark material jammed into this complicated, conflicted, challenging, and charismatic man's (Gibson) own noggin that sometimes he knows not, I think, what he's done. Here, behold, Mel Gibson has made the weirdest, most violent movie of the year. - 60
Time
Gibson is a primitive all right, but so were Cecil B. DeMille and D.W. Griffith, and somehow we survived their idiocies.
