a disturbing and truth of man's evil and goodness if u ever believed in evil and goodness of man this film tells it. it is not the only example of this.from ancient times to now man can be cruel as one can be and be good and kind.the Romans gave us so much in knowledge and laws and so on but for all this they held games of death as entertainment.this example of evil and good is shown well in Mel Gibson's apocalyto a story of one of the most civilized cultures in Mexico hundreds of years ago. yet for all there knowledge and buildings and learnings they were a savage people too just like the Romans.to please their gods they sacrificed humans in a terrible and savage way by stabbing and cutting them open and pulling out parts of the body supposedly to bring good harvest and to please the gods.and it wasn't just peoples of other tribes but they killed their own as well.picking girls and boys from their city to be killed something not shown in Mel's film.iam not an expert on Mayan or Aztec cultures but i know they were bright and intelligent and gave us many things but there were evil as men could be too.in war today we see this and in our entertainment as well.boxing,football,hockey and fighting all are violent entertainment and our movies what can u say about that.this movie is very violent and are so many more and we enjoy them.if man was not violent and evil we would not need jails or police.we would not need armies.but evil does exist as does goodness.each of us struggles with both every day.i too am a Christian but very liberal one.so i can see both sides of things and engage in discussion.but this movie is well made and presents the Mayan's as most of have never seen.the violence is no more gory than any other movie. but the chase scene in the last half of movie is just a copy of naked prey and another film i recall run of the arrow.but still was well done.and the ending was just that for the Mayan people when the Spanish ships arrive.the young warrior sees this and takes his family into the forest.a good film about evil in men and goodness.