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Apocalypto (2006)

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Reviews Counted:184

Fresh:117

Rotten:67

Average Rating:6.3/10

Consensus: Apocalypto is a brilliantly filmed, if mercilessly bloody, examination of a once great civilization.

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Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sequences of graphic violence and disturbing images

Runtime: 2 hr. 18 min.

Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, Classics

Theatrical Release: Dec 8, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $50.8M

Synopsis: As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a... As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate. [More]

Starring: Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernandez, Jonathan Brewer, Morris Birdyellowhead

Starring: Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernandez, Jonathan Brewer, Morris Birdyellowhead, Carlos Emilio Baez, Amilcar Ramirez, Israel Contreras, Israel Rios, María Isabel Díaz, Espiridion Acosta Cache, Mayra Serbulo, Iazua Larios, Lorena Hernández, Itandehui Gutiérrez, Sayuri Gutiérrez, Hiram Soto, José Suárez, Raoul Trujillo, Gerardo Taracena, Rodolfo Palacios, Ariel Galvan, Bernando Ruíz, Ricardo Díaz Mendoza, Richard Can, Carlos Ramos, Ammel Rodrigo Mendoza, Marco Antonio Argueta, Javier Escobar, Fernando Hernandez, Maria Isidra Hoil, Aquetzali Garcia, Abel Woolrich, Antonio Monroy, Nicolas Jasso, Ronaldo Eknal, Miriam Tun, Rafael Vélez, Diana Botello, Joaquín Rendón, Mauricio Amuy Tenorio

Director: Mel Gibson

Director: Mel Gibson
Screenwriter: Farhad Safinia
Producer: Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson
Distributor: Buena Vista

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Full Review Source: Movies.com | comment Comment
Jul 6, 2010
Dave White
Dave White
Movies.com

Nothing if not visceral

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
Aug 28, 2009
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion
N/R

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Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
Apr 29, 2009
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Mel Gibson follows up "The Passion of the Christ," his entrée into directing schlock B-move horror films with high production values, with an even more gory study into bodily torture and death.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
Apr 24, 2009
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
N/R

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Apr 23, 2009
Peter Keough
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

What this thing turns out to be is a skimpy action flick.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
Jul 23, 2007
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

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Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
Jul 14, 2007
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound
N/R

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Jun 29, 2007
David Edelstein
David Edelstein
New York Magazine
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Any Gibson-haters hoping to see the heart ripped out of his success may well find themselves disappointed by Apocalypto's relative merits.

Full Review Source: Film4 | comment 1 Comment
Jun 12, 2007
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Film4

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?

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment 9 Comments
May 20, 2007
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

Close enough, I suppose, if you want to reduce the entire end of a civilization to a single adventure story.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment 5 Comments
May 11, 2007
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

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.

Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | comment 3 Comments
May 8, 2007
Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

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.

Full Review Source: UGO | comment 1 Comment
Mar 24, 2007
Brian Tallerico
Brian Tallerico
UGO

Mel Gibson propone una discutible aproximación a la civilización maya que es, ante todo, un intenso relato de acción y heroísmo.

Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | comment Comment
Mar 12, 2007
Enrique Buchichio
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total

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.

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Mar 12, 2007
Emily S. Mendel
Emily S. Mendel
culturevulture.net

No matter what your interest is in the film -- entertainment or information -- Apocalypto delivers the goods, and then some.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment 3 Comments
Feb 19, 2007
Todd Gilchrist
Todd Gilchrist
IGN Movies

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.

Full Review Source: Reeler | comment 2 Comments
Feb 14, 2007
Michelle Orange
Michelle Orange
Reeler
N/R

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Feb 5, 2007
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Feb 3, 2007
Erin Clements
Erin Clements
Time Out New York

You have to really look for it, to see the political commentary in Mel's make-up extravaganza, which can be spotted not so much in the snoozy National Geographic-ky first half, as in the second half's retracking of Rambo's bushes. But it's there if you wa

Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | comment 1 Comment
Jan 27, 2007
Joseph Proimakis
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses
 
 
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