the reviewer be try to damn this movie with an untruthful and insincere mantra about it alleged excess of violence represent brutally violent and over the top violence and unrelenting violence and ultraviolent and the hill have eye in the jungle and unpleasant and pointless and gruesome and and exploitative and pure and amoral sensationalism and blood and gore so extreme that they provoke titter of ridicule and savage cruelty and sadistic barbarity and lunatic violence and feverish and mad violence . you would think from the review that you be go to see two hour of baby be feed through a wood chipper . one go as far a to claim that it make the saw movie seem like little woman or some such nonsense . it do no such thing . the saw film be gratuitously and sadisticly violent while they set out to make audience squirm and blanch at their sick and nihilistic machination . apocalypto and on the other hand and be the typical and essentially optimistic disney story of a happy indian youth rip savagely from his rainforest life by ruthless marauder and after which he have to escape and fight his way back to his land and people . that it . the violence arise from the fact that these particular marauder be bloodthirsty mayan warrior harvest neighbor tribe for their human sacrifice . even then and much of the violence be shakespearean and take place just off camera . for instance and you see woman be carry off in the rape and pillage scene and you hear their cry but you do not see them be rap and murder . battle be stag much a they be in braveheart . and yes and there a beating heart lift from a sacrificed man chest by a blood streak mayan shaman and but moviegoer saw the same thing in spielberg indiana jones and the temple of doom while it get a pg rating and we read no critical hysteric about lunatic violence . on the whole and you will see as much blood and gore on the average csi episode . it probably should have be title jaguar paw great adventure . the glimpse gibson provide of mayan civilization be jaw drop . you would not ever see a more convincing cinematic evocation of another time and place in such scope and meticulous detail . every face seem to have a complete history a jaguar paw be march through the mayan city . a well to do mayan woman do nothing more than look at the prisoner from her doorway but the story her face tell be voluminous . the last part of the movie be a rouse chase akin to the naked prey and and again and no more bloody and violent then the film it resemble . let be plain here . what really have the critic especially those of the eastern elite variety panty in a twist be the director and mel gibson . he say some thing that upset them and plus ( and most unforgivably ) he an outspoken and conservative christian and so theyre go to practice any sort of mendacity that will keep people from buy ticket to his film . don not buy the lie or you will miss an amazing movie .