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A bike messenger, hired by competing mob bosses to smuggle goods, finds that her only way out is a confrontation erupting into a battle of bullets, blows and kicks to the face. When warriors on horseback capture Evolet and the tribesmen, D'Leh must embark on an odyssey to save his true love. And though some have complained that the film's ending involves an historical inaccuracy, I think there was more than enough reason to put it in.There's a strong story that reminded me of other Third World folklore I've read, only better.

Having some Mexican-Indian blood in me, I've always been interested in what I could read about the Aztecs and Mayans and others.

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Title: The movie isnt even rated for nudity, so this is very mild. In the Maya civilization, a peaceful tribe is brutally attacked by warriors seeking slaves and human beings for sacrifice for their gods.

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After his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery, the teenage son of a slain Maori chieftain looks to avenge his father's murder and bring peace and honor to the souls of his loved ones.

In the prehistoric past, D'Leh is a mammoth hunter who bonds with the beautiful Evolet.

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The killing of animals may be intense for some viewers. A boy's foot is bloody after having been struck by a large rock, and a woman uses the pincers of ants to close the cut (the boy sobs and we hear squishing as each one is attached). A man is forced to lie back on a large stone, he is held, a man cuts his chest open and pulls out his heart (we briefly see the bloody organ and the lifeless man); the man then cuts his head off and throws it down a tall set of stairs, and then the body is thrown down the stairs too (some blood spurts from the neck wound). In ancient Maori times, an undead warrior and a young tribeswoman team up to find a way to stop the evil dead from rising. None 47 Mild 5 Moderate 2 Severe 0. And Gibson's recent PR problems only highlighted, for me, how it took an Australian-reared actor to make an exciting film about natives before Columbus. Hollywood has an agenda and very narrow perspectives. Directed by Mel Gibson. Click the pause button when the screaming monkey appears, just after the pregnant woman, but before the solar eclipse, then use the left arrow (button) to step the video back, frame by frame, to the guys painted white. | 642 of 859 people found this review helpful.



The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points. Jaguar Paw hides his pregnant wife and his son in a deep hole nearby their tribe and is captured while fighting with his people. While investigating the legend of a mysterious group of religious people living in the forest, a local news crew becomes trapped in the grasp of a doomsday cult, who are about to execute their final act of devotion and biblical punishment.

An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle. Another man is killed in the same way, his heart is pulled out, the man twitches and his head is lopped off with a crunch and thrown down the stairs.

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Directed by Glenn Triggs. 2 uses of "balls" and 1 use of "fuck", however none of it is in english.

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Two men run, trying to get away from their captors and one is struck through the back of the head with a spear (the spear point pushes through his mouth with a crunch and with blood) and another man is speared in the side.

In the Maya civilization, a peaceful tribe is brutally attacked by warriors seeking slaves and human beings for sacrifice for their gods.

Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son. A beautiful and moving story focusing on the much loved ballet of the same name. We were unable to submit your evaluation. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. A woman goes into labor as the cave she hides in fills with water, she pushes and the baby is born under water (we briefly see a cloud of bloody water as the baby emerges and the umbilical cord is visible). I think if Hollywood is up in arms it ought to be because Gibson is making them look inept.But as to this particular subject matter, there's no doubt in my mind that what fascinates most Anglos about the Aztecs and the Maya is the idea of human sacrifice.

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Clearly Hollywood is incapable of even conceiving of such a movie, much less bringing it brilliantly to life. Set on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago. How did that deep, deep hole fill so quickly after just a few moments of rain?

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You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. In a lot of ways these people could have been North American Indians, but somehow that's not much of a criticism.

The dynamic works well, though you have to be open minded with what it means to be them or live in that sort of environment - if you can't get down with that, it can be dreadful to watch.

The action scenes are pretty well executed. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Many men move into a village and begin to attack: men are tied by the hands and feet, dwellings are burned, men fight by striking each other with large clubs and with spears (we see dead bodies with blood on them on the ground), women are pulled away (it is implied that they are raped, and one woman who is dragged by two men bites one on the finger), a man pulls a knife and nearly cuts another man, a man's throat is slit (blood pours from the wound and the man collapses to his knees), and an infant is grabbed and held by the leg.

After his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery, Hongi, a Maori chieftain's teenage son, must avenge his father's murder in order to bring peace and honor to the souls of his loved ones. I only hope he does, but as to this film, I would have depicted the human sacrifice with a nod toward a notion most Anglos find completely foreign, namely that these people understood that gain often entails pain, and they were willing to pay the price.

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His point by point reconstruction is pretty compelling, and I'm quite sure he could make some early American military raids on Indian villages so vivid and unforgettable that grown men would cry. Use the HTML below. It's agenda has no room for illuminating the humanity of non-Westerners, and there's too much relying on the same old set of sensibilities and intuition.

The animal lays still, then springs a surprise attack towards the trapped character and her child.

Written by A dismembered head is thrown down a tall flight of stairs (we see blood-stained stairs where many heads had rolled before) and a large crowd below cheers; another head is thrown down the stairs and the crowd chants.

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The movie is engrossing and, even more difficult, plausible and quite evocative.

An eclipse spares his life from the sacrifice and later he has to fight to survive and save his beloved family.