- macaronz4. července 2026Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto is an absolute masterpiece. Sets a landmark in cinematic tension a grueling, visceral chase movie that keeps your heart in your throat from start to finish. The way he builds the whole world of the Maya civilization is incredible. When I first saw it, the movie actually stayed on my mind for days. One of its greatest strengths is the casting choice by using local, indigenous actors instead of Hollywood stars, Gibson achieved a rare sense of raw realism. If mainstream actors had been hired, the film likely would have lost its authentic edge. I highly recommend it; next to The Passion of the Christ, this is easily my favorite Mel Gibson directorial project.
- Kevin Ward2. července 2025I have been on vacation on the Maya Riviera for a week which included a visit to Chichen Itza. Amazing vacation, highly recommend. Inspired me to rewatch Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto. It’s still an pretty incredible film, even if it didn’t quite hold up as well as I thought it would. Starting with the good, I loved the use Yucatec Maya language. I wish more films had the courage to film in authentic languages even when they know their audience doesn’t speak it. Prey, for example, could have been even better if it was filmed with Comanche dialogue (and not just in English with a Comanche dub option). Native American actors and that it was shot on location in Mexico, give the film an incredibly authentic feel. The parts that didn’t hold up as well as I remember are most of the opening 25 minutes or so, that establishes Jaguar Paw and his fellow villagers. There’s lots of sexual jokes that come off as very juvenile. Most of the relationships depicted feel like western stereotypes ported over onto a Maya story. One villager, for example, has an overbearing mother-in-law demanding he produce some grand children, which is played as a joke. There was actually very little from the opening that I liked all that much. Once the ransacking of Jaguar Paw’s village happens though, it’s an incredible and cinematic journey that culminates in essentially a epic chase sequence seeing the hostile Maya tribe chasing Jaguar Paw all the way back to his village. And I loved how a Jaguar and a snake played a role in assisting Jaguar Paw’s escape and how some of his captors saw that as a bad omen. There’s clearly inaccuracies in it’s depiction of the Maya culture, too, though. One pivotal scene hinges on the Jaguar Paw’s captors being surprised when solar eclipse occurs and blots out the Sun. But we know the Mayans to be some of the most advanced astronomers the world has ever seen, having erected Chichen Itza with specific dimensions and positioning to create shadows indicating the equinoxes. They had accurately predicted solar eclipses hundreds of years into the future. The idea that they wouldn’t have known that a solar eclipse was happening this day is preposterous. That’s the one that stuck out to me, though I’m sure there are plenty more. I was glad I had a good excuse to rewatch this film finally. It had been at least 15 years since I had seen it and it was nice to go into it with some fresh context about the Maya culture.
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Apocalypto byl vydán 8. prosince 2006.
Apocalypto byl režírován Mel Gibson.
Apocalypto je dlouhý 2 h 17 m.
Apocalypto byl produkován Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey, Sergio Miranda.
Velkolepý projekt Mela Gibsona vypráví o starobylé říši Mayů a jejím zániku. Původ této kultury, její moudrý život a náhlá destrukce, je dosud opředena mnohými tajemstvími. Jde o vůbec první filmové zpracování této neobjasněné záhady. Hlavní hrdina Jaguáří tlapa se vydává na zběsilý útěk ze zajetí, aby zachránil nejen svůj život, ale i milovanou rodinu... Uznávaný, přesto nebo právě proto aférami obklopený, světoznámý režisér, scenárista, herec a producent v jedné osobě Mel Gibson při natáčení Apocalypta opět riskoval. Pro zvýšení autenticity se po celý film mluví neznámou řečí, původním mayským jazykem Yucatec, podobně jako v Umučení Krista.
Klíčové postavy v Apocalypto jsou Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), Zero Wolf (Raoul Max Trujillo), Middle Eye (Gerardo Taracena).
Apocalypto je hodnocen 15.
Apocalypto je film s žánrem Action, Adventure, Drama.
Apocalypto má hodnocení diváků 7.9 z 10.
Apocalypto měl rozpočet 40 mil. US$.
Apocalypto vydělal v kinech 120,7 mil. US$.