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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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06.10.07
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A hunter named Jaguar Paw must escape from the evil Mayans who captured him to rescue his wife and young son from their hiding place. As his village was being attacked he lowered them down into a deep sink hole for safe-keeping. But if there's a storm it will fill up with water and they'll drown.
As he and the other prisoners are led across Central America to the huge Mayan city for sacrifice, we're shown how that civilization is in decline, blighted with crop failure and disease.
This is a good adventure yarn, though the "message" is a bit heavy-handed. It's worth checking out for the sacrifice scenes, in which the living hearts are cut out of bodies and then be-headed, with the heads rolling down the side of the temple.
Better than Gibson's previous movie.
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Rating: 8.9 out of 10.0 - 8 votes cast total
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