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By Kevin N. Laforest (610) for Montreal Film Journal (589) on 30 Dec 2006

Its often purely visual action storytelling has got a relentless drive that is indeed undeniable…

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By David N. Butterworth (570) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 30 Dec 2006

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…

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By Steven Snyder (233) for Zertinet Movies (219) on 30 Dec 2006

It doesn't take long for the question to arise and to linger, unanswered, over a film that never offers an answer: Why in the world did anyone…

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By Paul Arendt (158) for BBC.com (1,500) on 30 Dec 2006

While the ancient dialects and weighty quotations suggest an arthouse epic, Apocalypto is basically a really good period popcorn flick…

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By Ethan Alter (997) for NYC Film Critic (162) on 30 Dec 2006

That I consider Apocalypto to be Gibson's best film as a director really isn't such high praise when you consider the fact that I hated his…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for DallasBlack.com (18) on 22 Dec 2006

About the best that can be said for Mel Gibson's overblown indulgence in sadism is that at least it isn't anti-Semitic…

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By Sean Mcbride (367) for Sean the Movie Guy (367) on 17 Dec 2006

As good as it is, the film is nevertheless tempered by an overwhelming streak of sadism…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 15 Dec 2006

The premise of Cornel Wilde's 'The Naked Prey,' the jungle savagery of a 1980s Italian cannibal film and the sadomasochistic martyr-complex…

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By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 13 Dec 2006

Trapped in Gibson's sado-masochistic nightmare…

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By Diana Saenger (322) for ReviewExpress.com (294) on 13 Dec 2006

It's disturbing that we get so much violence on TV and in the real news, that a filmmaker would make a conscious effort to create more of it…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 13 Dec 2006

Gibson isn't interested in educating either us or himself ... [and] the switch to pure action allows him to indulge in his by-now predictable sadism…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 13 Dec 2006

About as visionary as a 1940s Republic Pictures serial with the glossy sheen of an Indiana Jones picture lacquered over it…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Maxim (189) on 13 Dec 2006

Offers non-stop excitement and we MEAN non-stop, an electrifying epic in every sense of the word…

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By Cherryl Dawson And Leigh Ann Palone (956) for TheMovieChicks.com (956) on 12 Dec 2006

Hmmm, a man's struggle for freedom wrapped around a love story, sounds like Mel Gibson wanted to make Braveheart again, only with more violence…

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By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 12 Dec 2006

In spite of its high production values and higher pretensions, This is really just a gory matinee actionfest…

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By Mark Collette (97) for Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (351) on 11 Dec 2006

Rather than sprawling into far-reaching epic mode, this carefully contained script zooms in on one man's drive to protect his family against…

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By Thomas Delapa (487) for Boulder Weekly (487) on 11 Dec 2006

Gibson's ancient Mayan version of The Most Dangerous Game played with clubs and spears…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 11 Dec 2006

That is the thing about Gibson, fool that he is in other ways: he has learned how to tell a tale, and to raise a pulse in the telling…

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By Linda Cook (1,442) for Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (1,206) on 11 Dec 2006

Brutal, compelling and utterly convincing, Apocalypto is an adventure that stuns, overwhelms and, above all, entertains…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 10 Dec 2006

The combination of story, action, excellent costume and makeup and solid performances by the hitherto unknown cast makes for a film that will…

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