Mel Gibson's Apocalypto (Widescreen Edition)
by Mel Gibson
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Actor: Carlos Emilio B?ez, Dalia Hern?ndez, Jonathan Brewer, Morris Birdyellowhead, Rudy YoungbloodDirector: Mel Gibson
Brand: APOCALYPTO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Multilingual (Original Language); Multilingual (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 138 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Movie Reviews of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto (Widescreen Edition)
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Summary: 5 Stars
Mel Gibson chose a bad time to reveal his true racist colors. His anti-Semitic rant destroyed any good press his new movie Apocalypto was about to receive. Not too concerned about that (art can be nobler, grander then the person who made it. That's what makes it art), I was free to judge Apocalypto on its own merits. And it delivered. I watched the DVD on a crappy little player and still felt as if I was in the sweltering jungle. The story is really simple (Jaguar Paw's village is overrun by fanatical neighbors, he must escape back to his wife and kid who are hiding out in a well, etc.), but it just gave me more time to oogle at the cinematography. And, wow. The costumes of the characters alone must have cost a fortune, and they can convey triumph, anger, fear, etc, in a completely undecipherable language. That's skill. While Apocalypto doesn't bill itself as historical (the Mayans left no written records), it provides frightening evidence of what happens when a predatory society, on the verge of extinction, decides to cannibalize itself. Watch. And tremble.
Summary of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto (Widescreen Edition)
From Mel Gibson, director of THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST and the Academy Award?-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.'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 shot 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
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