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Apocalypto (2006) 7.8
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7.8/10 from 166,250 users
Metascore: 68/100
Reviews: 1,015 user | 276 critic | 37 from Metacritic.com As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate. Director:Mel Gibson |
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In the Maya civilization, a peaceful tribe is brutally attacked by warriors seeking slaves and human beings for sacrifice for their gods. Jaguar Paw hides his pregnant wife and his son in a deep hole nearby their tribe and is captured while fighting with his people. An eclipse spares his life from the sacrifice and later he has to fight to survive and save his beloved family. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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No one can outrun their destiny. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for sequences of graphic violence and disturbing images | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
MayaRelease Date:
8 December 2006 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Mel Gibson's Apocalypto See more »Box Office
Budget:
$40,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£1,360,110 (UK) (5 January 2007)Gross:
$50,859,889 (USA) (2 March 2007)Company Credits
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title card: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." W. Durant
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Written by Antonio Zepeda
Performed by Antonio Zepeda
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Did You Know?
Trivia
Many substantial speaking roles were filled by Mayan people who had never acted before. Sick Girl, who curses the hunting party as they and the captives pass right before entering the city, was played by a seven-year-old who lived in a dirt-floored hut in a village similar to Jaguar Paw's. See more »Goofs
During the sacrifice just before the eclipse, a pile of torsos and heads is just right of the bottom of the steps. After a few frames of body parts bouncing down the steps and being caught in the baskets, a view of the other side shows a direct mirror image, not a different pile of bodies. See more »Quotes
[first lines]title card: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." W. Durant
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Daniel Paredes ...... Crazy Student and Son of a Driver See more »Soundtracks
"¿He De Dejar Las Bellas Flores?"Written by Antonio Zepeda
Performed by Antonio Zepeda
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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. 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. The movie does have a lot of violence. But the violence is woven into a story with characters we care about. It is a realistic part of the culture being described. And it is not shown in a hyper gruesome manner, as is much of movie violence today. Thus, I found it much less offensive than many reviews had led me to believe I would. Unlike in some movies, I found the subtitles in Apocalypto so easy to read that most of time I forgot I was reading them. If anything the strange language only adds to the tone of exotic strangeness that pervades this unusually good and thrilling movie.