Apocalypto

There are very few films which create a long lasting impression on you , regardless of how long back you saw it ,the movie always remain in your memory and keeps surfacing again and again , Apolcalypto is one of those movies . directed by the eccentric Mel Gibson , i call him eccentric because of his undying attitude towards filmaking . he makes his imagination comes to camera no matter how impossible it might be .his way of risk taking in making his thoughts come live gives jitters to the most seasoned performers .The cast of the film is new , with Rudy Youngblood , Dalia Hernandez , morris yellowhead as lead , and Raul Trujillo as their counterpart .
The plot is about a tribe in the Mayan empire , who lives in the forest and survives on agriculture and hunting , one day after a hunt , they come across rampaged people who were thrown out of their village by some thugs , they tell that a group of thugs are circulating around and they might be next , the tribe chieftain says to them that they can pass through the forest , both tribes exchange food and disperse , the chieftains son Jaguar paw gets insecure and tells his father to do something , the father replies not to fear and stay true to his heart , the night comes and they celebrate the festival of the dead .

Rudy youngblood and Dalia hernandez as jaguar paw and seven

Next morning the village is attacked , the thugs plunder and loot everywhere , they burn houses and fields , they beat men and women and tie them up , jaguar paw seeing this takes his pregnant wife and young son and flow them down in a circular pit with a rope , when he goes back to the village he is beaten and tied up , his father the chieftain is killed . coming morning the captives are taken to the forest were a poor girl prophesies that Mayan empire will end with a man running with jaguar , after walking for a day they reach the Mayan suburbs , the fields are dry and people are ransacked , they see slaves working on limestone , spitting blood . they soon reach the sacrificial place , the captives are made to lie on a stone and then their organs are disemboweled after the ritual their heads are axed , two of the captured are sacrificed , when the turn of jaguar paw comes , solar eclipse occurs , the priests declare that they have seated the thirst of their god Kukulkan , and there is no need of further sacrifices , the thug asks what they do of the remaining captives , dispose them was the answer .

Raul Trujillo as zero wolf

the captives are taken to a field , they are told that they would be free , if they survive the attack from behind and are made to run , thugs attack them from behind with arrows , spears , stones and bolts ., the rule was , who ever would cross the field would be free . Jaguar paw runs till the end but is hit by the spear , seeing this the finisher comes to kill him , but instead he kills the finisher , who turns out to be son of thugs captain . And so the chase begins from a distant land to Jaguar paws jungle , the chase has a lot of story in it , which include injured jaguar paw running tirelessly to the pit were his wife and son is , a snake bite , jaguar attack , falling from the cliff and poisonousness frog , in the end it starts raining heavily ,jaguar paw finishes all the thugs including the captain , the last two remaining chase jaguar paw till the sea shore were they find huge ships and people with strange attire ,a Spanish missionary , all three of them keep staring when jaguar paw escapes , the two remaining go to the ships to find out what they were . Jaguar paw comes to the pit full of water , he finds his wife and son and their new born child drowning , he takes out his family from the pit and moves towards the jungle ,his wife asks what these ships were and should they take thier help , jaguar paw turns and says , they should go to the forest for a new beginning . 

Apocalypto is one of those few movies which takes you into to the story and not for even a second you will feel that your watching a movie , it is one of those escapist films which takes you to another world and educates you about its culture , language , dresses , costume , religion , architecture etc .and you crave for more , after film ends , you come out of the movie hall thinking about it , the movie remains in your mind for a long time , Mel Gibson and Farhad Safinia has proven and shown their true talent , first with passion of Christ and now with apocalypto . We hope that they come up with Apocalypto 2 very soon with Spanish conquistadors .