apocalypto be probably one of the ten best movie of the year and a compelling action movie with not only adrenaline and but also brain and heart . it portrayal of the mayan culture include it strange dress and hair style and costume and tattoo and body piercing and and decorative scar and as well a it industry and class system and city and warfare and weapon and myth and and religion provide a bizarre and fascinating anthropological backdrop for what be and at it heart and a solid and thrilling and fast pace old fashion struggle between good guy and bad guy . the movie do have a lot of violence . but the violence be weave into a story with character we care about . it be a realistic part of the culture be describe . and it be not show in a hyper gruesome manner and a be much of movie violence today . thus and i find it much less offensive than many review have lead me to believe i would . unlike in some movie and i find the subtitle in apocalypto so easy to read that most of time i forget i be read them . if anything the strange language only add to the tone of exotic strangeness that pervade this unusually good and thrilling movie .