From Mel Gibson, comes Apocalypto. This movie is an action-adventure set against the turbulent end times of the once great Mayan civilization. When one of the tribesman's existence is suddenly disrupted by a violent invading tribe, he ends up on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression that will ultimately lead to his death. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.
I went in to this movie thinking that there was no way that Mel Gibson could keep up with prior amazing movies like Braveheart and Passion Of The Christ and was very pleasantly surprised. Be warned - the movie is subtitled and it is very graphic at times (I'm just going to go ahead and warn all readers that a man eats a boar's testicles . . . . . . . I almost gagged!). However, my golden rule of whether or not a subtitled movie is great or not is if you forget that you are reading what the characters are saying. You totally don't realize it in this movie because you really are glued to what's going on up on the screen. Just the look of the film with the jungle action was amazing.
I really liked this movie a lot and strongly recommend it to anyone who would be in to a history channel type movie and can deal with subtitles. I know how that can be a real killer sometimes, but this movie is very much worth it.
