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Updates, 12/8: "The brutality in Apocalypto is so relentless and extreme that it sometimes moves beyond horror into a kind of grotesque comedy, but to dismiss it as excessive or gratuitous would be to underestimate Mr. Gibson's seriousness," writes AO Scott in the New York Times.
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Having her not mention the title Apocalypto was smart, Mel.
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The film's title, "Apocalypto," a Greek word for an unveiling or new beginning, "just expresses so well that I want to convey," Gibson said.
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The most straightforward - if not the best - way to interpret the end of Apocalypto is that Christian Europeans finally arrived in the New World to put an end to monstrous pagan barbarism.
New World Apocalypse, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It is also him who mae this native american actor into a celeb, by givign him th eleading role in Apocalypto and who gave leading role to unknown actors in all his movies and to people who had never acted in fornt of a cam in their life, ad that he teached on the spot!
Robert De Niro Joining Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I simply have no personal interest in Apocalypto, or Mad Max reruns.
"Dammit Roger Sutton 2007
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But if Apocalypto is supposed to bear some relation to Maya civilisation, then I have to hate it.
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I rank them in the reverse order of the list above, Apocalypto is going to look wonderful, All the Kings Men is going to feature some stunning performances, Protector is going to have some of the most amazing action in it, and Saw III?
Filmstalker: Trailer Updates: Saw III, Protector, Apocalypto, Kings Men 2006
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"Basically Apocalypto is 20 minutes of Everyday Life in a Mayan Village; 10 minutes brutal battle; 25 minutes of Slave Trek; 25 minutes of even more brutal Life in a Mayan City; 45 minutes of 16th-century Naked Prey," writes Andy Klein in the LA CityBeat.
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"Unpleasant, pointless, gruesome, and exploitative, Apocalypto is the worst movie of the year," announces Jürgen Fauth.
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