I’ve been waiting for this movie for a long time. Not apocalypto in particular, but a big hollywood treatment of pre-columbian america… anywhere. There are lots of possible stories there, I think it’s just hard to make a movie that audiences will connect with on a personal level. So, the next best thing is to give it the action thriller treatment. When Apocalypto is at its best, it’s simply stunning, but when it’s at its worst, it’s camp (can we say leopard wrestling?).