One of the strongest movies of the last decade

Mel Gibson is such an admirable filmmaker. He seems to have little interest in making a movie that is not about life and death, about the basic human condition, and about violence in human nature: Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ, Apocaplyto. We need more filmmakers like this! In fact, speaking of violence in human nature, many aspects of Apocalypto reminded me of Cormac McCarthy's great novel Blood Meridian: the indian culture, the prophet (that young girl who speaks the prophesy), the sacrifices, the heads mounted on spikes, the violence, the white Spanish bringing their religion and their gunpowder to the older culture of the indians at the end, etc. It's a powerful and terrifying film.

Please Mel, direct another movie!