Apocalypto

The whole film is too reliant on action movie cuts and zooms, plus James Horners insistent score, but its beautifully rendered and convincingly exciting. ( Read More )

Lisa Schwarzbaum

And the nogginless bodies that remain would not be photographed in piles inspired by old Holocaust imagery. ( Read More )

Ben Walters

And yes, nature is cruel, but do we really need to see a jaguar eating a mans face off.Gibson claims contemporary parallels for his story from deforestation to the sacrifice of the weak by the powerful but a pay off that teeters between reactionary and downright absurd leaves this ultimately feeling like a succession of gorified Boys Own scrapes. ( Read More )

Stephen Hunter

To Snake Ink, slitting a throat is kind of like buying a new tune for your iPod.It must be said that whatever its lumpy geopolitical agitprop, Gibsons Apocalypto is the lowest, maybe the best kind of this is a strange but necessary word for a film this bloody fun. ( Read More )

Yet the film rarely makes its historical contextexplicit and doesnt manage to interweave it with the heros personal narrativein the way that Braveheartdid. ( Read More )