If anything the strange language only adds to the tone of exotic strangeness that pervades this unusually good and thrilling movie. Unlike in some movies, I found the subtitles in Apocalypto so easy to read that most of time I forgot I was reading them. Thus, I found it much less offensive than many reviews had led me to believe I would.
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And it is not shown in a hyper gruesome manner, as is much of movie violence today.
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It is a realistic part of the culture being described. Mel Gibson will star in the John Wick prequel series The Continental at Starz, Variety has confirmed.
But the violence is woven into a story with characters we care about. Its portrayal of the Mayan culture - including its strange dress, hair styles, costumes, tattoos, body piercing, and decorative scars, as well as its industry, class system, cities, warfare, weapons, myth, and religion - provide a bizarre and fascinating anthropological backdrop for what is, at its heart, a solid, thrilling, fast paced old fashioned struggle between good guys and bad guys.
Apocalypto is probably one of the ten best movies of the year, a compelling action movie with not only adrenaline, but also brains and heart.
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