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(1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 61% Fresh Page   1   3.5/5 "Any Gibson-haters hoping to see the heart ripped out of his success may well find themselves disappointed by Apocalypto's relative merits."   Channel 4 Film   Anton Bitel B "The simplistic premise serves the film fine in terms of action and awe-inspiring moments, but it does next to nothing when it comes to historical value -- something I was hoping for, even in the slightest."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 4/5 "Apocalypto may not be one of the best movies of the year, but it surely stands shoulder to shoulder with those exceptional efforts of 2006 -- at least from an artistic perspective."   DVD Verdict   Bill Gibron D+ "This is Gibson's bloodlust pure and unfiltered, and it's depressing to sit and watch him make the same film for the third time in a row."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf "Flint Sky tells his son, "Fear is a sickness. It has tainted your peace already... Strike it from your heart." Too late."   PopPolitics.com   Cynthia Fuchs 2/4 "All it did was convince me that Mel Gibson appears to have found his niche, as the Grande Dame of Brutally Realistic Semi-Mythological Epics."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 2/4 "...feels like a phenomenal step backwards for the thoroughly talented filmmaker."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 3/5 "The film is drenched with Gibson's unique brand of crazy ... coming off as a sort of a fantasy in which Jesus, after suffering the more brutal lashings at the hands of the Centurians, is able to escape into the jungle and turn into Rambo."   eFilmCritic.com   Dawn Taylor C "It's all Shock and Awe, but for what?"   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "By the end, there's nothing to grab onto except spare limbs and innards."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2.5/4 "Mel Gibson is sick, but his new film profits from his weakness."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez 3/5 "Mel Gibson propone una discutible aproximación a la civilización maya que es, ante todo, un intenso relato de acción y heroísmo."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B "Bizarre, almost unique in its mixture of over-the-top bloodletting, ambitious storytelling, and lowbrow slapstick humor."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "What's truly challenging about it is the ironic displacement of anyone's God as the all-knowing presence in the face of our fellow man constantly preaching the myths as the key to survival."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B+ "Has a visionary quality that makes it weirdly beautiful and endlessly fascinating...a film of astonishing vibrancy, stunning imagination and sheer bravado."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 5/5 "An astonishingly vivid and violent film about the waning days of a Mayan civilization that turns into a meditation on the shadow side of life, forcing us to own up to human savagery and to realize how desperately we need peace as a counter-balance."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat B+ "Apocalypto seems meant as a parable for what happens to the unChristianized savage--is it supposed to serve as a warning for secular humanists with their rampant abortions and callous stem cell research?"   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 3.5/4 "It's unlike any other movie to reach theaters this year and, because it is as visual an experience as it is visceral, it is best seen on a large screen."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 0/4 "... Gibson's directorial efforts have been fairly blood-soaked historical exercises -- and Apocalyto isn't just more of the same, it's entirely too much of the same. ... Apocalypto is a career-ending flop, and easily the worst movie of 2006."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 4/4 "Smolders with cinematic fever."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 6/10 "Gibson's film entertains without leaving the stronger impression of scope it had the intention and potential to do."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 5/10 "Close enough, I suppose, if you want to reduce the entire end of a civilization to a single adventure story."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 8/10 "Beautiful and, at the same time, completely savage, and that's something you don't get too often at the holidays unless there's a new Rugrats movie in theatres."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 2.5/5 "You have to really look for it, to see the political commentary in Mel's make-up extravaganza, which can be spotted not so much in the snoozy National Geographic-ky first half, as in the second half's retracking of Rambo's bushes. But it's there if you wa"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 2.5/5 "The Hills Have Eyes in the jungle"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 4/4 "Its often purely visual action storytelling has got a relentless drive that is indeed undeniable."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B+ "...director Mel Gibson puts all his psychoses on screen and comes out an auteur, a director of distinctive vision if troubled mind."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3.5/4 "It's a mesmerizing vision of the past refracted through the dark obsessions of the present."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 4/10 "In spite of its high production values and higher pretensions, This is really just a gory matinee actionfest. Director Gibson needs a better writer than writer Gibson."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "[A] thrilling tale of survival and love and dedication in a world we've never seen on film, produced with a lavish respect for and attention to honoring that world..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson B- "Overflowing with hackneyed but thrilling blockbuster-familiar moments, the majority of which, in another context, could have proven entirely comfortable in a mid-'80s Schwarzenegger vehicle"   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 4/5 "Gostemos ou não de Mel Gibson, sua competência como diretor é inegável, assim como sua coragem em assumir projetos pouco convencionais."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 3.5/5 "Say what you want about Mel Gibson, but that sadomasochistic anti-Semite knows how to shoot a movie."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 4/5 "With a plot that could be set almost anywhere, Gibson recreates the ancient Mayan civilisation on screen for this deeply entertaining action thriller."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2/5 "What this thing turns out to be is a skimpy action flick."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C+ "You're not likely to forget the experience, but one can't help but wonder who would want to go through it in the first place."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C+ "Trapped in Gibson's sado-masochistic nightmare."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten A- "The combination of story, action, excellent costume and makeup and solid performances by the hitherto unknown cast makes for a film that will have broad appeal."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 1/5 "suffers the carte blanche excesses of a successful director who believes he's earned the right not to be told "no.""   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell C "Gibson is still seeking life amid death, but the balance is off."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 4/10 "Mayan culture excelled in mathematics, astronomy, art and urban planning but Mel's only interested in its savage cruelty and sadistic barbarity."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 2.5/4 "The film's ultimate descent into laughable implausibility is regrettable, for there's so much that's otherwise genuinely impressive about the boldly realized, yet wildly uneven Apocalypto."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight 3/4 "What most disappoints about Apocalypto is that it is, ironically, not particularly risible in any way."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf 3.5/5 Read review   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito  (1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 61% Fresh Page   1