Apocalypto is an extremely intense action/adventure movie about, well, savages. The village where our protagonist Jaguar Paw lives is pillaged, and all the men are taken prisoner to the Mayan empire to be sacrificed, while the children are left to fend for themselves and the women are auctioned off. When Jaguar Paw escapes (in one of the better scenes of the movie), it's a brutal chase as he tries to escape and make it home (about a forty-eight hour run) in time to save his pregnant wife and child that he managed to hide in some sort of well.

What's so moving about this movie is that it shows the extreme depth of the family relationships that developed during that time. Mostly centered on JP (I like that), but also on how the Father/Son relationship is treated in other civilizations.

But the family bonds serve as a backdrop to the non-stop, brutally real, MacGyver-like shit that JP has to go through. Seeing everything from hearts being ripped out of chests, to a jaguar eating the flesh off a person's face, to a vicious Mortal Kombat-style uppercut, this movie has all the elements of a great action movie.

The one thing that lacks is the dialogue. Granted, it has to be basic, since it's all in subtitles and it's primitive speech, but... I don't know. Plus I don't know how I feel about the ending. It almost seems like Mel Gibson didn't know how to end his flick, so he just stuck something totally random in there. But don't let that be a turn off, the other 95% of the movie is fucking great.

And also, if you plan to see this movie, you HAVE TO see it on the big screen. Seriously. Most of the times the DVD is just as good but here... no.

Rating: 8.5/10