Haven't seen it yet. But this funny review makes me want to:
The sentence following this is going to take me quite some time to write, because between every keystroke, there will be a three-minute pause while I clench my fists up to my temples and emit a long growl of resentment and rage.
Mel Gibson's Apocalypto is pathologically brilliant. It is bizarre, stomach-turningly violent and frequently inspired.
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It almost puts Mel Gibson into a kind of insane-genius league, not too far from the adventures of Werner Herzog. But it wasn't for hours after I had staggered dumbly out of the cinema that I realised which German director Gibson really was channelling - and again, this is hardly going to recommend his film to anyone. Apocalypto is like something by Leni Riefenstahl, both from her Nazi period (the prehistoric Mayan Nuremberg, the mad, declamatory leader) and from her later, primitivist-anthropological period of photographing Sudanese tribesmen.
By the way, I liked Braveheart, OK? It made me go to Scotland. Though I didn't see the Passion, because I was afraid I'd be grossed out by the blood.
Posted by Kai Carver at January 7, 2007 07:57 PMDidn't see it. "Stomach-turningly violent" is a big turnoff for me (hear that, Japan and Korea?).
Posted by: Kai Carver at March 10, 2007 03:11 AM