Sophie Maele

The fact that the prog film reviewers uniformly hate this movie while the public loves it is all you need to know. The film works on many different levels - as brutally honest history, social commentary, a love story, a heroic action flick. The shocking amount of violence, blood-letting and murder may be too much for some viewers, but is accurate. Rudy Youngblood is excellent as the central character who is taken prisoner and almost becomes a blood sacrifice before astronomical events interfere and he gets his chance at freedom. Mel Gibson should consider making a sort-of sequel about Hernan Cortes and how he put an end to the butchering and enslaving monarchies of indigenous Meso-America in the early 16th century.