Apocalypto

These are real hard days to find a genuine action movie. Action has become synonymous with hi fi graphics or unbeleivably flying jets or aliens and characters with weird makeups. Apocalypto comes a bolt out of the blue sky compensating for all actions one has been longing for. It is sheer blood flowing all over. The Director Mel Gibson gets into the forests to capture the mayan era and films it at his best known capacity, as violent as possible. However the film in itself demands that. People in the movie are still wearing animal skins, hunting wild boar and trying to eat its ball raw, speak a language of their own. They live life in the forests only one step better than animals. Now when one such group of people is attacked by another group of people for another group of people who are still less civilized than these people is when hell breaks and blood flows. The plot is simple. The hero's village is ransacked by a group of people whose job is to hunt for peopla and take them as captives to a far off place. Here in the ladies are auctioned out and men are sacrificed to their holy god. Sacrifice is a small word. As these men's hearts are plucked from them and blood squeezed from them and then their head is butchered. This is just a sample of the violence in the movie. How our hero manages to hide his family , a pregnant wife and son from the ransackers, and how he manages to escape from his captive and return to save his family is the movie all about. The movie is simply fascinating.The locations, cinematography and in all the whole techinical aspect of the movie is so authentic and unbeleivable. You will definitely live through the Mayan civilization. You don't fool around yourself with those movies claiming to be hard core actions. Jus give a def ear to them and go watch Apocalypto.


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