[Dr. Scarpetta]

[SaltyJoe]

WARNING Sarcasm alert for the following (in the spirit of NY Daily News)!

"Oh my fellow white non-papist gentile brothers. If such defense were written for the dead and dying Nazi brothers against the grotesque displays of violence in Roman Polanski's "Pianist" or Spielberg's "Schindler's List", then we wouldn't be burdened under mortal discernment for knowing what is right and what is clearly wrong! Oh! if only the scenes of women being shot in the head/face had been cut! Then we and our actions could have remained ambiguous under the eyes of men and escape history's judgment! Such an ode to violence portrayed on film! If these violence porn loving men receive any honors for reproducing the truth of human cruelty than shame on mankind for honoring the victims of evil!"

END SARCASM

Viva Cristo Rey!

[Twinkie]

Mel has designated the wrong group as "the enemy" if his rant about the Jews being at fault for all the wars is any indication of his views. It's pretty evident that the Isalmic terrorists are the "enemy", that evil and the devil are the "enemy", so he needs to think that through. Germany had a great resource in the talented and productive Jewish people; what a horrible waste of humanity, from those lost in the Holocaust, not to mention the loss of life among the non-Jewish people of the world. My father survived the war, but it affected our family adversely in spite of all we could do to rise above it. - I'm so sick of the megalomaniacs and egotists of the world, from the politicians to the Hollywood so-called "intelligentsia" imposters.

[Dajjal]

It's a masterpiece.

[Porterville]

I'm still upset about his recent anti Israel, anti Jew, tirade....

[eleni121]

What a fantastic film on so many levels!

Sure there is blood but not even a quarter of what is regularly shown in the mind numb Hollywood flicks these days. If anything the bloodletting is tastefully depicted. The realism of violence if you will - is mollified by camera angles and sound...so while you think you see the jaguar eating the man's head - you really don't. And what is so gosh darned bad about depicting what must have been a most brutal time in Maya/Toltec/Aztec history and making a statement about man's inhumanity and how the seeds of destruction are contained in the mayhem and inhumanity of civilization?

Gibson proves that he has mastered his craft and utilizes the artistic skills of cinema masters.

I saw it today with some of my film students and we agree ---superb.

[ValerieUSA]

This is not a movie review, it is a bloody personal attack on Mel Gibson.

I saw the movie, and it was so bloody I often had to look away. But it was an accurate portrayal of the demonic, bloodthirsty Mayan culture, while still preserving the humanity of the native peoples who were not absorbed into that soul-robbing religion.

[reg45]

Mayan civilization: Coming soon to an Aztlan near you.