mel gibson apocalypto be not a normal movie but a big make up movie from the moment the film start to the moment it end you feel you be transport into the ancient mayan civilization and see full body tattoo and body art and multiple piercing and jewelry it be a very exciting motion picture to look at and so strange to watch it have the esthetic that begin to appeal and it fill you with wonder our hero jaguar paw ( rudy youngblood ) be a cunning hunter whose father request him not to tell of what he saw in forest today he be warn to strike fear from his heart and not to bring it into the village his wife and seven ( dalia hernandez ) be pregnant and and their small son and turtle run ( carlos emilio baez ) and live modestly in a village surround by a tranquil rain forest . after a night of frivolity and the peaceful existence of this small community of hunter collapse when savage outsider begin torch and burn everything in sight kill most and take away dozen leave go undetected and jaguar paw hide his wife and child in a deep and waterless well promise to return when the attack have pass however when he be capture by his fearsome aggressor and he be tie to a pole and march with his friend and fellow villager to a forsaken land and stone built and where the earth bleed a fortuitous switch provide jaguar paw with an unexpected opportunity to escape and get back to his family in peril but for that he have to make his way home through a killing field and a dangerous jungle and race against sadistic captor hot on his trail apocalypto transport the viewer to a strange and unreachable world and to a civilization in decline and to an infernal vision of a city and it inhabitant and to shock image of human barbarism which have always exist throughout the age .