the movie be well film and on a great location and with fantastic backdrop and and be mel gibson accurate on all account . no and but director and cinematographer must make change and put in their montage what they see a a visual story . a small tribe be abduct to be sacrifice do indeed happen in the time of the film 1517 and 1518 the post classical maya period . even though it be the aztec who be the strong in the time portray by the film and they the maya be close ally of the aztec and they share idea and religion while and there be trade route throughout mesoamerica . ( adam and 1998 ) be there all kind of sacrifice go on . yes and the mesoamerican be go through all kind of bad prophecy and such a the hundred year drought and there have be very little rain for the crop . people be starve and the moon eat the sun and and wild animal be attack the villager more and more . since the european have already land in the antilles and have already venture into the yucatan coast while there be an epidemic of measles and chicken pox that be heavily affect the american indigenous and who have no resistance for such disease ( the little girl in the movie ) . these be all sign that the god be displeased . for the aztec and maya and inca blood be life . it be the flow of life and the liquid that provide life for them and and for the god as well while and if the god do not get enough blood the god be unhappy . so the aztec and maya be sacrifice at an alarm rate try to please the god . this be unfortunate for the village and tribe in and around the aztec and mayan major city . since the sacrifice have deplete the population in the large city ( they could only sacrifice so many of their city people without create chaos within the city ) and most of the citizen and family have already donate a child or an adult male or female to the god . worrier be order to go outside the large city and abduct by force several individual ( young and old and woman and and child ) from the surround village and tribe . the spaniard be very much astonish when they witness their first human sacrifice and talk about cultural clash . most of the surround villager do not want to partake in the sacrifice and several of the small village have already donate a number of their kinfolk to the city leader for sacrifice . hence the bloody mess at the temple throughout mexico in those time be horrendous and approximately 40 and 000 individual have be sacrifice in one year in teotihuacan alone ( adam and 1998 ) . imagine about 100 sacrifice per day . this be why cortés have no problem recruit 50 and 000 to 100 and 000 indigenous fighter to help his 400 spaniard eventually defeat the aztec . the thrill of see a young father and proud tribesman go to save his wife and child be what movie be make of . the setting in the jungle and the animal and the danger and the trill of victory be all in this film and and even well because of the mayan background . see it and let the true or untrue fact rest ( be the mayan savage or not . ) and and the movie be no more gory or graphic than the video game our child here in the usa play .