Mad Mel's method's are intense and often exciting but Apocalypto is a kind of combination of Gladiator and The Naked Prey. The blood, intensity, action, and violence simply wears you out by the end. You care a bit about Jaguar Paw (an Indian) and his predicament but he and his family are put into so many sequences of jeopardy that it's overkill and exhausting.

I would pay to see this if only we also got to see Cortez destroy the Aztecs. That would be worth seeing.

Humanity is depraved, insane, and inhuman, and Mel seems to be outraged by that (and God who Created us and lets it happen).

Mel is all about The Pain. Try some contemplative prayer, guy.

Just in case one graphic sacrificial slaughter of a man with his heart ripped out of his body and his head cut off wasn't enough, Mel let's you enjoy it twice to really drive the point home, so to speak.