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Apocalypto is a brilliantly filmed, if mercilessly bloody, examination of a once great civilization.
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Apocalypto demonstrates two things: that Mel Gibson is a hell of a filmmaker and that his imaginative world borders on the Neanderthal. Jun 29, 2007 | Full Review…
Apocalypto demonstrates two things: that Mel Gibson is a hell of a filmmaker and that his imaginative world borders on the Neanderthal.
David Edelstein
It's Gibson's taste for carnage that defeats him in the end. The brutality is relentless, and the many ways in which blood is spilt so ingenious, that it's numbing. Once the adrenaline rush subsides, there's nothing left. Jan 13, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's Gibson's taste for carnage that defeats him in the end. The brutality is relentless, and the many ways in which blood is spilt so ingenious, that it's numbing. Once the adrenaline rush subsides, there's nothing left.
Sandra Hall
Pathologically brilliant. It is bizarre, stomach-turningly violent and frequently inspired. Jan 6, 2007 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Pathologically brilliant. It is bizarre, stomach-turningly violent and frequently inspired.
Peter Bradshaw
This is by no means a boring film, then, but it is a grotesque one, and that brings it pretty close to camp. Dec 30, 2006 | Full Review…
This is by no means a boring film, then, but it is a grotesque one, and that brings it pretty close to camp.
Ben Walters
As a piece of filmmaking it's certainly strong enough to restore his commercial viability. Whether that's to the good is another question entirely. Dec 30, 2006 | Full Review…
As a piece of filmmaking it's certainly strong enough to restore his commercial viability. Whether that's to the good is another question entirely.
Tom Charity
While the ancient dialects and weighty quotations suggest an arthouse epic, Apocalypto is basically a really good period popcorn flick. Dec 30, 2006 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
While the ancient dialects and weighty quotations suggest an arthouse epic, Apocalypto is basically a really good period popcorn flick.
Paul Arendt
If Mel Gibson is a mad genius, then Apocalypto may be his most insane work yet. Jun 5, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
If Mel Gibson is a mad genius, then Apocalypto may be his most insane work yet.
Matthew Lucas
There is something different in Gibson's application of violence. The objections seem to lie not just in Gibson's realistic portrayal of cruelty but in the judgment he brings to it. Oct 16, 2018 | Full Review…
There is something different in Gibson's application of violence. The objections seem to lie not just in Gibson's realistic portrayal of cruelty but in the judgment he brings to it.
Megan Basham
A quite exciting spectacle based on a racist version of indigenous history, one in which the genocidal conquistadors are the New World's liberators. Jul 18, 2014 | Full Review…
A quite exciting spectacle based on a racist version of indigenous history, one in which the genocidal conquistadors are the New World's liberators.
Louis Proyect
Apocalypto isn't simply an effective movie, but an immensely powerful one: a benchmark and a foresight seemingly all rolled into one. Oct 22, 2013 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Apocalypto isn't simply an effective movie, but an immensely powerful one: a benchmark and a foresight seemingly all rolled into one.
David Keyes
Damn if the movie, through Mel's sheer determination, doesn't almost turn from a fight-n-flight gore fest into a moving meditation on a civilisation in the throes of decline. Almost. Nov 7, 2012 | Rating: 3/5
Damn if the movie, through Mel's sheer determination, doesn't almost turn from a fight-n-flight gore fest into a moving meditation on a civilisation in the throes of decline. Almost.
Luke Goodsell
Ignore Apocalypto's symbolic hubbub and instead view it for Gibson's perverse sense of entertainment. His passionate spectacle of human destruction and doom packs a terrific visceral punch. Nov 6, 2010 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Ignore Apocalypto's symbolic hubbub and instead view it for Gibson's perverse sense of entertainment. His passionate spectacle of human destruction and doom packs a terrific visceral punch.
Jeff Meyers
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