APOCALYPTO

IF YOU ARE NOT OFFENDED BY: MURDER - RAPE - SENSELESS CRUELTY - TORTURE - VIVISECTION - MUTILATION -SLAVERY - HUMAN SACRIFICE - STARVATION - CHILD ABUSE - PURE VIOLENCE - SADISM OR FLAGELLATION -YOU WILL ENJOY APOCALYPTO. ************************************************************************************ IF THESE ELEMENTS ARE NOT EASILY ACCEPTED BY YOUR PSYCHE, YOU WILL HAVE A HARD TIME WATCHING 75% OF THE FILM.
MUCH LIKE THE PASSION OF CHRIST, MEL GIBSON HAS NOT SPARED THE BLOOD AND GORE.
STILL, HE HAS MADE A MAGNIFICENT PICTURE. OVER FORTY YEARS AGO, CORNEL WILDE, STARRED IN, THE NAKED PREY, WHERE A WHITE HUNTER WAS GIVEN A CHANCE TO RUN FOR HIS LIFE, BY A GROUP OF AFRICAN HUNTERS, WHO WERE HOLDING HIM CAPTIVE.
IN CHATO'S LAND, CHARLES BRONSON MADE A FILM ABOUT AN INDIAN, WHO USED THE ENVIRONMENT OF HIS NATIVE TERRITORY TO DESTROY THE AMERICANS WHO HAD HARMED HIS FAMILY. THIS IS ALSO PRESENT IN APOCALYPTO.
THIS FILM BORROWS THOSE BASIC IDEAS, BUT TRANSPLANTS THE LOCAL TO SOUTH AMERICA AND THE MAYAN EMPIRE'S BRUTALITY IN USING SLAVE LABOR AND HUMAN SACRIFICE TO PROMOTE THEIR GROWN.
THIS IS A CHASE MOVIE AND WHERE STEVE McQUEEN'S, BULLITT, USED CARS, ON CITY STREETS, THIS FILM HAS ITS CHARACTERS ON FOOT, IN THE JUNGLE. IF YOU CAN GET PASS THE BLOOD, THIS FILM BRINGS OUT THE NATURE OF EACH CHARACTER -- YOU GET TO KNOW THESE PEOPLE, WITHOUT KNOWING THEIR NAMES OR EXACTLY HOW THEY GOT TO THIS PLACE IN TIME.
SO, IT IS A CHARACTER STUDY, IN A CHASE MOVIE. OR IT IS A CHASE MOVIE, WITHIN A STUDY OF CHARACTER.
A MAJOR FILM CRITIC HERE IN SOUTH CAROLINA, GAVE THIS FILM A SCORE OF ONE ON A RATING SCALE THAT HAD SIX AS THE TOP NUMBER. USING THAT SAME SCALE AND NOT FACTORING IN ANY PERSONAL FEELINGS ABOUT THE DIRECTOR, I WOULD GIVE THIS FILM A FIVE. OF COURSE, IF YOU CAN'T GET PASS THE BLOOD AND VIOLENCE, A ZERO WOULD BE APPROPRIATE.
THE GREATEST MOMENT IN THE ENTIRE FILM TAKES PLACE IN THE LAST FEW MINUTES, WHEN A DANGEROUS ELEMENT IS INTRODUCED INTO THE PLOT - AND THIS ELEMENT MAKES EVERYTHING UP TO THAT MOMENT, PALE IN COMPARISON.

WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN SO FAR IS LITTLE MORE THAN A FAIRY TALE, COMPARED TO WHAT IS COMING.