Definitely Mel Gibson's crowning achievement in my opinion. Why no sequel or prequel ?
I don't think he would make any follow up to Apocalypto because this type of movie is a one time story. Sequels to movies of this type are always bad since the film does not focus on development of unique characters or continuity but rather on global events and emotional cerebral scenes.
shareOne movie you can watch that can be interpreted as some sort of sequel by theme is an 80s movie with Robert Deniro called The Mission. It describes relations of south or Central American natives with conquistadores and how the Spanish people with a conscience have a problem with people who give orders from Spain as well as those violent people who carry out the orders in the new land.
share"The Mission" is a good film but nowhere near the mind-blowing masterpiece that "Apocalypto" is. "Apocalypto" is a historical/action film that works on a poetic/mythic level and that is the hardest thing to achieve, the most difficult level of artistry, the very highest tightrope balancing act. There are only a handful of films in all of history that reach this level: Citizen Kane, The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, Los Olvidados, Nazarin, The Godfather Part 1, Germany Year Zero, Paisan, Mafioso, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Once Upon A Time in the West and a few others. The unfairly maligned "1492" by Ridley Scott is even better than "The Mission" in my opinion. It has unbelievable imagery that could have been turned into a masterpiece if Mel Gibson circa 2006 was editing it, but didn't quite make it under Ridley Scott's more sober treatment in 1992.
shareI agree that Apocalypto is better than The Mission.
shareGreat list, but you left out 'ROCKY', 'Die Hard', 'Jaws', and the original 'Star Wars'!
shareYou forgot to add The Godfather 2 to your list.
shareIts a masterpiece in my opinion, they didn't make 'Casablanca 2: Lazlo's Revenge' either, no sequel required
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