- Kevin Ward2. Juli 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 wurde am 8. Dezember 2006 veröffentlicht.
Regie in Apocalypto führte(n) Mel Gibson.
Apocalypto hat eine Spielzeit von 2 Std., 17 Min..
Apocalypto wurde produziert von Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson, Sergio Miranda.
Es ist die Zeit, in der der Niedergang einer der ältesten und geheimnisvollsten Hochkulturen aller Zeiten bevorsteht: der Maya. Bis heute birgt diese Zeit offene Fragen und ungeklärte Geheimnisse. In Apocalypto skizziert Mel Gibson die Geschichte eines Mannes aus dem Volk der Maya, der in dieser Zeit um sein Leben kämpft. Nur die Liebe zu seiner Familie und zu seiner Frau gibt ihm die Kraft und den Mut zu bestehen.
Die Hauptcharaktere in Apocalypto sind Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), Zero Wolf (Raoul Max Trujillo), Middle Eye (Gerardo Taracena).
Apocalypto ist bewertet mit 18.
Apocalypto ist eine Thriller, Action, Adventure Film.
Apocalypto hat eine Benutzerbewertung von 7.9 von 10.
Apocalypto hatte ein Budget von 40 Mio. $.
Apocalypto erzielte Einnhamen von 120,7 Mio. $ an den Kinokassen.