Hey Zach, can only Caucasians be depicted as evil savages? Would that make you happy? What if Mayans were evil savages sometimes? Would it still offend you to portray them that way?
Oh, by the way, Zach, you might not know this because you are only an expert on such a race of absolutely perfect and non-violent people as the Mayans, not on anything else, but many ancient civilizations, even relatively advanced ones, did have their share of "evil" and "savage" practices. Did you know, Zach, that ancient Carthage engaged in the systematic killing of babies? Huh, Zach? The priests threw the newborns off the cliffs into pits called toffets. But we couldn't actually show anything like that in a film, now could we, Zach, seeing as how that would offend you. And we really CARE about your personal view of history, Zach, really we do.
Hey Zach, why don't you keep you politics out of my face and go away.
What do you expect a liberal San Francisco Chronicle movie critic to say? He said what all of us on Freerepublic could have predicted - the Politically Correct statement about the Noble Savage. If Mel had wanted praise from the San Francisco types, he would have made a movie showing the evil white Spanish Catholics beating innocent minorities (Mayan natives_ to death with crosses.