Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Crapocalypto

That's a tad strong, but let me tell ya', we were trying to see some movie today and, well sometimes what you came to see sells out and you go to see what you can get seats for. Hard to believe that three weeks out, a film in an ancient tongue has seats available.

Let's put it this way, while it is interestingly filmed and slightly less gory then I expected (oh, it's still gory, just not as gory as you'd expect from Mel Gibson given unlimited power to make what he wants) it is in essence, yet another against the odds chase film, even more full of coincidences than most and two -- count them -- two appearances of a deus ex machina.

And let's not forget that one of the few references you are going to see of film about ancient Maya gets the culture cravenly wrong AND horribly out of time, and I do mean horribly.

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