It’s safe to say that only Mel Gibson could have made Apocalypto. No other director would have been able to gather enough funding to produce a film with mostly non-actors in a Mayan dialect. Yet for ...

“Apocalypto” (2006, Buena Vista, R, $30): Set in the 1500s during the waning days of the Mayan Empire, Mel Gibson’s savage pulse-pounder tells a remarkable story of human survival almost exclusively ...

With Apocalypto, Mel Gibson has taken on a tough challenge in focusing on a civilization that no longer exists and that is not terribly important to most Americans. With the same passion that he put ...

“Apocalypto” will have a hard time matching the success of “The Passion of the Christ,” and not merely because of its director’s recent drunken monologue about Jewish people. This is a brutal, violent ...

While the holidays boosted specialty titles like “Letters From Iwo Jima” and “Babel,” Mel Gibson’s holdover “Apocalypto” seemed stuck in neutral, after generating surprising heat in its debut three ...

For an anti-Semitic alcoholic, Mel Gibson sure can make entertaining movies. His latest, ``Apocalypto,'' represents a giant step forward from his previous effort, ``The Passion of the Christ,'' a ...

Will Hollywood fall victim to the Apocalypto Syndrome? Small screenings of the still-uncompleted film are quietly taking place. The movie is rough around the edges — temp score and sound, scenes still ...

Who knows what violence lurks in the hearts of men? Mel Gibson knows. And like he did in The Passion of the Christ, Gibson just can't resist putting every last ounce of it on screen in Apocalypto. He ...

But then it wouldn’t be a Mel Gibson film, would it? The exhilarating adventure tale in the Yucatec Maya tongue is Gibson’s fourth turn behind the camera — and his bloodiest. As a director, he seems ...

This week, a major film opens in the United States. Nothing unusual about that, but this one is unique. It has no stars, its plot is obscure, it has a made-up word for a title, it is told in a Mayan ...

"Apocalypto" turns out to be not a case of Montezuma's revenge but of Mel Gibson's: It's something entirely unexpected, a sinewy, taut poem of action. Brazenly politically incorrect, it actually ...

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