Apocalypto

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Action & Adventure

Watched this film way back in December - as what the critics say, it's "an adrenaline-drenched chase movie" and "a visceral visual experience."

I can also relate it to the politically shaken administration of GMA. Her rule is oppressive, unjust and anti-poor and its doom is near. See quote below from the website - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypto:

“The corrosive forces of corruption are illustrated in specific scenes throughout the movie. Excessive consumption can be seen in the extravagant lifestyle of the upper-class Maya, their vast wealth contrasted with the sickly, the extremely poor, and the enslaved. Environmental degradation is portrayed both in the exploitation of natural resources such as the over-mining and farming of the land, but also through the treatment of people, families and entire tribes as resources to be harvested and sold to slavery. Political corruption is seen in the leaders' manipulation, the human sacrifice on a large scale, and the mass slave trade. These themes are prevalent throughout the movie and often overlap and blend together, creating an overall sense of sadness, devastation and destruction.

The Ancient Greek verb αποκαλύπτω (apokalýptō) means "I uncover," "disclose," or "reveal." Gibson commented about the movie's title: "[It] just expresses so well what I want to convey. I think it's just a universal word. In order for something to begin, something has to end. All of those elements are involved. But it's not a big doomsday picture or anything like that."

Great film, Mel Gibson is very good. How I wish there's a Part II.