Apocalypto directed and produced by Mel Gibson in 2006 is simply one of the best epic and adventurous movie of all time, though bloody and cold, it's still filled with breath taking and incredibly great action the costume is nice and suits the story.
It was written by Gibson and Farhad Safinia. The film features a cast of Indigenous Mexican and Native American actors consisting of Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Dalia Hernández, Ian Uriel, Gerardo Taracena, Rodolfo Palacios, Bernardo Ruiz Juarez, Ammel Rodrigo Mendoza, Ricardo Diaz Mendoza, and Israel Contreras.
All dialogue is in a modern approximation of the ancient language of the setting. Here the Yucatec Maya language is used, with English and other language subtitles (which sometimes refer to the language as Mayan).As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices.
The story centers on a young man "Jaguar Paw" captured for sacrifice, he must escape his fate to safe his pregnant wife and son hidden in a dry well.
While hunting in the Mesoamerican rainforest, Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), his father Flint Sky (Morris Birdyellowhead), and their fellow tribesmen encounter a procession of refugees fleeing warfare. The group's leader explains that their lands were ravaged and they seek a new beginning. He asks for permission to pass through the jungle. Flint Sky comments to his son that the visitors were sick with fear, and urges him to never allow fear.
At sunrise the next morning the tribe's village is raided by a group led by Zero Wolf (Raoul Trujillo). Huts are set on fire, many villagers are killed, including Flint Sky, and the rest of the adults are taken captive. Jaguar Paw's heavily pregnant wife Seven (Dalia Hernández) and their young son Turtle's Run (Carlos Emilio Báez) escape by hiding in a small natural pit cave that also serves as a water reservoir, but are left trapped when Jaguar Paw is captured.
The raiders then lead the captives on a long forced march through the jungle, having left the children behind to fend for themselves.On the journey Cocoa Leaf (Israel Ríos), a badly wounded captive, is killed by the sadistic Middle Eye, eliciting anger from Zero Wolf, who threatens his fellow raider with death if he kills another captive without permission.
As the party approach the Mayan city they encounter razed forests and failed maize crops, along with villages decimated by an unknown disease. A little girl (María Isidra Hoil) infected with the illness prophesies Zero Wolf's death and the end of the Mayan world. Once the raiders and captives reach the city the females are sold as slaves while the males are escorted to the top of a step pyramid to be sacrificed before the Mayan King (Rafael Velez) and Queen (Diana Botello).
As a result of a solar eclipse and the superstitions surrounding it, Jaguar Paw and the remaining captives are spared from being sacrificed by beheading. Instead, they are ordered to be taken away and "disposed of." They are offered freedom if they can avoid being killed during target practice by Zero Wolf and his men. After some tribesmen are killed, Jaguar Paw is severely injured but kills Zero Wolf's son Cut Rock (Ricardo Díaz Mendoza) and escapes back into the jungle.
Zero Wolf sets off with eight comrades to chase down and kill Jaguar Paw. Back in his native jungle Jaguar Paw now has the advantage, although badly injured. Still, most of his pursuers are gradually killed off, via clever conceits and traps laid out by Jaguar Paw, until there are only two left to hunt him.
The drought breaks and heavy rain begins to fall, threatening to drown Jaguar Paw's family who are still trapped in the pit cave, every escape attempt before, thwarted. At this time Seven gives birth to another son, water-birthed into the now dangerously rising water. Meanwhile, the two remaining raiders chase Jaguar Paw out of the undergrowth towards the coast. As they reach the beach, all three are stopped in their tracks as they see conquistador ships anchored off the coast and Christian Europeans making their way ashore with a cross held up.
Jaguar Paw escapes while the two raiders remain seemingly mesmerized at the conquistadors' presence. Jaguar Paw returns in time to save his family from the flooded pit, overjoyed at the sight of his new baby son.
Sometime later, as the reunited family look out over the water at the Spanish ships, Jaguar Paw has to decide whether to risk approaching the conquistadors or try to return to their traditional lifestyle. Seven, intrigued, questions whether they should approach them, but Jaguar Paw insists they should rather head back into the jungle. The family departs in search of a new home, heading deeper into the jungle.
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