Product Description
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From Mel Gibson, director of THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST and the
Academy Award(R)-winning BRAVEHEART (Best Director, Best Picture,
1995) comes the thrilling historical epic APOCALYPTO. This
intense, nonstop action-adventure transports you to an ancient
South American civilization, for an experience unlike anything
you've ever known. In the twilight of the mysterious Mayan
culture, young Jaguar Paw is captured and taken to the great
Mayan city where he faces a harrowing end. Driven by the power of
his love for his wife and son, he makes an adrenaline-soaked,
heart-racing escape to rescue them and ultimately save his way of
life. Filled with unrelenting action and stunning cinematography,
APOCALYPTO is an enthralling and unforgettable film experience.
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Forget any off-screen impressions you may have of Mel Gibson,
and experience Apocalypto as the mad, bloody runaway train that
it is. The story is set in the pre-Columbian Maya population: one
village is brutally overrun, its residents either slaughtered or
abducted, by a ruling tribe that needs slaves and human
sacrifices. We focus on the capable warrior Jaguar Paw (Rudy
Youngblood), although Gibson skillfully sketches a whole
population of characters--many of whom don't survive the early
reels. Most of the film is set in the dense jungle, but the
middle section, in a grand Mayan city, is a dazzling triumph of
design, costuming, and sheer decadent terror. The movie itself is
a triumph of brutality, as Gibson lets loose his well-established
fascination with bodily mortification in a litany of assaults
including impalement, evisceration, snakebite, and bee stings.
It's a dark, disgusted vision, but Gibson doesn't forget to apply
some very canny moviemaking instincts to the violence--including
the creation of a tremendous pair of villains (strikingly played
by Raoul Trujillo and Rodolfo Palacias). The film is in a Maya
dialect, subtitled in English, and on digital video (which
occasionally betrays itself in some blurry quick pans). Amidst
all the mayhem, nothing in the film is more devastating than a
final wordless exchange of looks between captured villager
Blunted (Jonathan Brewer) and his wife's mother (Maria Isabel
Diaz), a superb change in tone from their early relationship.
Yes, this is an obsessive, crazed movie, but Gibson knows what
he's doing. --Robert Horton
Beyond Apocalypto
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Apocalypto soundtrack by James Horner (
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