What a great, disturbing and thought provoking movie. All I could think about during the movie was how nothing has changed between the brutality of the Mayan culture then and our "modern civilization" now. Yes the movie is ultra-violent, but so is what really happens in battles, imprisonment, and imperialzation. I did wonder whether a movie about the misery of our soldiers in Iraq and the people of Iraq would be any less violent and gruesome.
For all those that call it ultra-violent, I would agree, but it is not fictional, unlike the violence shown in games like Grand Theft Auto or silly horror movies whose names I don't care to remember. Movies like Apocalypto, Gladiator, Brave Heart, Alexander, Kingdom of Heaven are all movies that are fully justified to carry violence to portray reality of those eras.
This movie will touch a nerve with fathers and their instincts to protect and provide for their families. The only difference is that instead of waking up every morning and lining up for a hunt in a jungle, we now wake up an line up for intellectual battles.
This movie will definitely make it into my collection of Epics.
