Mel Gibson can direct some good ass movies. This is an underrated gem. And you guys picked up on a lot of the foreshadowing. God bless yall ❤

These native empires were so brutal to all the surrounding tribes that when the spanish arrived many of those smaller tribes that were being killed and enslaved joined them against the empire. That is how a few hundred spaniards managed to conquer empires of millions: they made many native allies. The conquistadors said that after the war, once the empire was defeated, they had to stop their native allies from torturing and killing the prisoners, that is how much these smaller tribes hated the other guys.

They were advanced enough in math and calenders to know the time of the eclipse. A manipulation of the masses by those elites. Thus the smiles between the leader and the execution guy. Good movie. Good historic rep.

'I don't know if I ever want to go to Cancun'....🤣🤣🤣

The high priest and the ruling class knew when to expect the eclipse, they knew astronomy and all sorts of stuff they exploited. The head nod to each other was to say it's time, we are pretty much done here with these peasants.

Amazing and sad how many Americans don't know the history of the Americas - Aztecs, Mayans, the arrival of Cortez etc. The pyramids for sacrifice, the religions.

An eclipse was like a sighn from god to the regular people, but the priests new exactly what was going on. Remember they were on the same level as the ancient Egyptians as farxaa understanding what was going on with the solar system

This movie is a gem. Mel is an amazing Director...

"I don't know if i wanna go to Cancun" 😄

Those ships were the coming of Hernan Cortes, Spanish conquistador.

Definitely one of my favorite movies for sure! It's one of those that makes you think about what life would be like if you lived in that type of civilization.

Mayans were masters of time and astronomy. They knew the eclipse was coming, and used these theatrics to convince the masses that they were in tight with the gods.😎

The civilisation shown here were the Mayans, not the Aztec. The people speak a Yucatan Maya language, they are dressed as maya, the architecture is Maya. Mel Gibson took however many liberties. Sacrifice on this scale was something of the Aztec, not the Maya. However, in the period of time portraited here (postclassic), the Maya of Yucatan were heavily influenced by Aztec and other groups of central Mexico, thus it could be possible that some Maya city state went completely into Aztec mode. Mel Gibson also mixed the decline and downfall of two different periods of the Maya. The Classic Maya fell around 500 years before the invasion of the Spanish conquistadores. The reason of there downfall is still heavily discussed, the most accepted theory is a period of decades of drought. Another is that there downfall came from environmental degradation. Mel Gibson portraited this in his depiction of the felling of the forest for the building of the pyramids (the white stucco portraited in the movie needed a lot of firewood). This period was followed by a Maya renaissance in Yucatan, the Postclassic period. This civilisation was already in decline when the Spanish came, with warfare between city states that were once allies, and a military caste taking over a priest cast. Finally, we see already the first appearance of the destruction by the Europeans. The prophesy girl in the movie has smallpox, a disease brought into the Americas by the Europeans, a disease that will kill more Amerindian then all wars and slavery brought by the invaders combined. So we can set the timeframe of this movie around the first decades after European contact, in Yucatan with a Maya civilisation in decline.

The trick was to be able to calculate when an eclipse would happen but to make the people believe it is a sign from god. That way you can control people, of course the people don't know you can calculate when an eclipse would occur. This was part of the knowledge the priest class kept to themselves.

This was based on the Mayan culture correct. Fun fact: the pyramid city was all man made/constructed for this movie. All the clothes, jewelry and hair were also crafted. You can tell the different hierarchies based on the clothes and jewelry each person has on.

One of the best movies I've ever watched 🔥✨️

The chase scene with the black panther was 100% real. According to Mel Gibson, it was on a leash.

49:22 chills every time I hear his speech 👏🏾👏🏾

When Jaguar paw made the connection to his wife, she felt it, that's why she shuddered....... The little girl was an oracle. Crazy but they knew of eclipses and manipulated people with what they didn't know. Jaguar paw had an edge which is why he dodged the arrows and sensed the refugees in the forest.

when people say "this is stolen land" they fail to realize, native people (no matter what continent) stole land, enslaved, and warred with each other before the first Europeans set foot in the Americas. it wasnt a peaceful commune where everyone sang kumbaya by a campfire every night.

That was a black jaguar

Kinda was the end of their world. The arrival of Europeans was the beginning of the apocalypse for the Mesoamerican, North American & South American native civilisations. Really like your reactions, subscribed!

It was not for fun or entertainment. Human sacrifice was common in many parts of Mesoamerica, so the rite was nothing new to the Aztecs when they arrived at the Valley of Mexico, nor was it something unique to pre-Columbian Mexico. Other Mesoamerican cultures, such as the Purépechas and Toltecs, and the Maya performed sacrifices as well. In the Aztec "Legend of the Five Suns", all the gods sacrificed themselves so that mankind could live. Estimates of the number of sacrifices in relation to the population vary, however, it has been estimated that up to 250,000 people were sacrificed per year. This is equivalent to approximately one percent of the population. This movie "Apocalypto" depicts Maya culture and the sacrificial ritual was an offering of nourishment to the gods and goddesses. Blood was viewed as a potent source of nourishment for the Maya deities, and the sacrifice of a living creature was a powerful blood offering. By extension, the sacrifice of human life was the ultimate offering of blood to the gods, and the most important Maya rituals culminated in human sacrifice. Generally, only high-status prisoners of war were sacrificed, and lower status captives were used for labor.

I love history , what i can’t understand how people are so shocked by human behavior in todays world , when it’s all written down🧐, thanks for sharing😊👍✌️🇺🇸

The landing of The Spanish at the end is the equivalent of Aliens landing now.

Allegedly Motezuma the ruler of the Aztec empire at the time had a dream where the gods told him they needed sacrifices for the gods to return back to the Aztec empire. In the years leading up to the Spanish arriving it’s said that they sacrificed somewhere in the area of 250,000 per year but many people find that number hard to believe.

As a Mexican I´m glad you guys are watching this. Really good freaking movie. You can say whatever u want about Mel but the guy knows how to write shit. Also, the depiction of the culture and the traditions it´s also on point. Not to mention that facepalm you can feel that after all that trouble and fights, you see Spaniard ships arriving to your country lol... we all know what happened after it.

Is a Maya's story, on how the Aztecs (Original Mexicans) kill peaceful groups of natives. The other enemy are the Spaniards, coming to the Americas and committing genocide. The Mayas and the Aztecs two different civilizations.

I just wanna start by saying they was ACTING talk about a man’s drive to protect his family it was a tragic/beautiful movie. I love how this movie was shot, a peak into the culture, and the story was very interesting. I hate when the dad dies on some petty shyt but my boy got his revenge on them, also the whole sacrifice thing something some cultures actually did.

Another fun fact about this movie, is that for Meso American cultures, the afterlife was reserved for the warriors. In those cultures going to war and having a child was equivalent, that's why they represent Jaguar Paw's journey parallel to his wife's.

The thing is in the part with the eclipse the priests knew it was going to happen, the Aztecs and Mayans had detailed observations and records of the movement of the moon. You can see the priest look back at the others like "Okay showtime" and then he looks back to the people like he was the one that made the sun return. It's all theater to keep the population in line.

You should watch more Mel Gibson films. such a great actor & director.

The brutality was hard to watch but I liked the authenticity and Jaguar Paw triumphed in the end because of his love of family.

The conquistadors actually helped many of the 'lower' tribes in their plight against the 'higher' tribes that enslaved them. This is true in both the Western and Eastern hemispheres. History has twisted the role of Europeans when they discovered this land. Both the indigenous and the Europeans suffered diseases that they physically didn't have defenses against and it caused a lot of death. Slavery also existed long before the white man ever crossed the oceans. It was always neighboring tribes that took other tribes as slaves and sacrifices to either use, sell or kill. What is really interesting is that it was the Europeans that put an end to the oppression of the lower tribes and eventually ended the trans-Atlantic slave trade. We learned this kind of information in schools 50 years ago, but the public school system has removed a lot of worldly knowledge to make room for less useful and often backwards 'education'. Rather than our histories and actual real-world knowledge, we have opted to fill the classrooms with gender and 'social justice' issues. Younger people have been left abandoned as far as access to actual history as political winds have sought to divide us and make enemies of the truths that would keep us united.

As an Indigenous Native American from a Federally Recognized Tribe in N. California. I bought this movie because MEL GIBSON is an EPIC DIRECTOR. This was amazing to see with you both. I can feel the emotion when they see the ships ..yes it was Freakin’ Christopher Columbus!! 🤦🏻‍♀️🙏🏽. Excellent Choice.

I understand how from a modern perspective you could see the Europeans at the end as a bad thing, but there's an implied moral in this story : these human sacrifices and barbaric practices were coming to an end. Remember that it's a Mel Gibson movie ; the guy's a devout Christian and it's in all his movies.

Christopher Columbus type 🥷's….🤣🤣

This was like this all around the world everywhere at one time or another. People torturing and enslaving and killing people who had less. I always thank god I live in todays time.

That reveal at the end. The end of their world.

During the timeline of this movie the Spanish have been in the Americas for five years. The disease in the Mayan city was cause by their arrival. The city authorities sent out war parties into a flower war. To find human sacrifices to end the plague. The Mayans and Mexica could have easily defeated the Spanish if there were no European diseases involved.

It is the end of their world

A genuine Native American movie, that telescopes the historical periods to make it watchable. We were all hunters once.

The attacking tribe are Aztecs. They were strictly a warrior culture. Much like the Spartans. Raised from childhood to be warriors. They would try not to kill the captives. They would disable them and bring them back to their city for slaves and sacrifices. The more captives they brought back alive the more status they had in the warriors group. Montezuma used the warriors to hunt other tribes down and bring them under submission. Until the Spanish showed up. Montezuma's mistake is he offered them gold in the hopes that if the Spanish were Gods it would placate them and cause no harm and the Spanish would go away. He didn't understand the Spanish greed.

Next time you hear people praising Mayans and Aztecs remember this is what they used to do. The Aztecs (whose real name was Mexicas) kidnapped and killed around 40,000 people a year, often eating them too (Pozole was originally made with human flesh). When the Spanish arrived (portrayed by the end in boats) they brought the word of Christ along with Roman law and Greek philosophy. Most of the natives who were oppressed by the Aztecs joined the Spanish. Hernán Cortés entered in Tenochtitlan with 500 Spanish men and 20,000 natives mainly from Tlaxcala, that’s why some historians say that the Spanish conquest was made by natives. Great reaction 👍

I love this movie and it’s definitely a classic to movie connoisseurs like myself

Most favorite reaction so far. I love this beautiful couple. Felt like I was watching this again for the time. Had me rolling when they added Chappelle. I'm jealous though...wish I had someone to watch movies with. Will watching more of their reactions

I know that a lot of people don’t like this movie because they don’t like Gibson or the “historical inaccuracies,” but I always thought it was an incredible and artistic film. I really dig how it shows the tribes acting like HUMANS, playing pranks on each other, laughing, and telling jokes. There is no denying that this type of brutality is also no exaggeration in the history of this world. People should be aware of it.

27:28 The water from the rain is not salty though, so they wouldn't float as easily in it. They would have to keep swimming to stay in the surface for hours and hours until the water reached the top of the hole, if it does.

Technically it was the end of the world. The beginning of the end of the world as they knew it. It's such a great film. Great video. Subscribed!

I loved watching this film over the years. I just wish! I just wish there was a scene where Jaguar Paw and his partner run into the children who were abandoned at their ravaged village at the end of the film.

About to be a roller coaster

I laughed when you said “good thing the kid’s not hard headed” during the hiding scene bc my niece was that type. She’d be like WHY and made sure we were caught 😂😂

One of the best movies show pure will to survive against all odds!

I never get nightmares from movies but when my wife and I watched this we both had nightmares…me for 2 nights. A year or so later it popped up on tv about halfway through and I put it on just to have something on and my wife said “hell no!”

My people✊🏼✊🏾✊🏿🇲🇽

Loved this film! Great reaction!

i like your reaction guys, you guys are so chill, i can tell my guy is a wise dude, so calm and collective

Ur editing is so funny guys

I still love and watch this movie One of the best ever made.

Those were the Spanish at the end, the bad tribe ends up getting destroyed by the Spanish I believe.

Shout out to those of us who don't need any subtitles for this. Where you at

My dawg said a bad batch of cocaine 😂😂😂

Every latinamerican should watch this movie. Because everybody thinks native americans lived in a paradise before the Spanish Empire. No sir

I watched this Movie like 20 times and still my favorite

I'm lived in Venezuelan rain forest amazone , there tribes still making tribal wars same in Brazil , in asia Also i believe ... Some indian native americans wiped out other weak tribes in tribal wars for territory and women... In África tutsis tribe and hutus tribe make tribal wars even today,but with russian weapons ...

This move is amazing 🤩 good reaction

The film is about the Aztec civilizations that lived in Mexico. The great tenochtitlan. It talks about how sacrifices were made to the gods and at the end of the film we see how the Spanish supposedly arrived to conquer the tribes. In fact the movie was filmed in Veracruz, México 🇲🇽

I was the same heard the title and thought it was a movie I wouldn't be into. It's a very good movie, especially the Conquistadors at the end. Yall should check out this movie called The Drop it's another one I didn't think I'd be into now it's one of my favorites. Bout a bartender named Bob and a dog named Rocco. Yall will like it. Awesome show 👏 Keep up the terrific work 👌 👏 👍 😀

This is the National Geographic version of ‘Predator’.😎

I love how you guys watch movies. You're really absorbed into the world and imagining yourself in it. It made me appreciate the movie more.

I fucks with yall heavy! Normally movie reactors are corny but yall tough. Keep putting heat out!

This movie should've win the oscars

They are Mayans from south MEXICO

That was actually a black Jaguar, not a panther. Jaguars are more stocky in the way they are built and are found in Central America in addition to North and South America.

“Now go over there and slap him a few times” and “pull out his piercings “ had me rolling on my couch, laughing hard af 🤣🤣🤣🤣

its called a labret Piercing is what they have under the bottom lip

Never considered this movie that I’ve watched more than a dozen times as a horror but after y’all said it, it pretty much is. But it was reality at one point

When you look at human behavior vs our closest relatives (chimps and bonobos) one big difference is in reactive vs proactive violence. Chimps and bonobos are way more reactively violent, meaning they have short tempers and fight reactively over sudden, petty sh*t. Humans are characterized by proactive violence, e.g., planned raids, wars, surprise attacks.

Bro u funny . Love ur reaction 🙌🏾

This is during the end of the Mayan empire Pizarro was in Colombia and Panama and Cortez in Mexico, those 2 were actually blood cousins and some of the most notorious conquistadors. They were praising Kukulkan the Sun God with the hopes that he will lift his displeasure of them and allow their crops to grow. In turn they unleashed their Hunters to bring them human sacrifices to the misfortune of Jaguar Paws tribe.

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"Almost" is what he called him when they first invaded them. Because Jaguar paw almost killed him. So he said it again when he hit him with that stick...it wasn't almost anymore and he knew that. So he said it again!!

Crazy thing is that we watch this when I was at 6th grade on elementary, we had some cool teachers that year

Yes sir found y’all’s channel today had to subscribe great reaction 👍💙

Enjoyed watching this reaction. 👍🏻

"He was a finisher alright, he got finished" lmaoooo literally 😂😂😂😂

Great reaction y'all definitely worth a follow 😊

The best of Gibson ✨

That Dave Chappel as a president killed me 😂😂😂

Fye ass reaction yeah this movie goated my cousin put me on this one of his favorites and became one of my favorites this jawn was shot beautifully my favorite part was when he got let go and immediately start hitting zig zag routes that was some real shit lol keep doing y’all thug thizzle y’all fun and entertaining as hell to watch 🫡💯🔥

Check out the movie with director commentary. Mel Gibson and the director comment through the entire movie. They discuss the history of Mayan culture, actors, and challenges on the set. It’s caulk full of interesting tidbits. Some of the most memorable things I remember was that the seemingly dumbest looking guy on the set was a genius, the lead actor was really a fast runner, Mel challenged the fastest actor the set, and that boar’s leg was real and it stank to high heaven. The carried it around for days. Glad you both enjoyed it.

These are Mayans, but they're late stage Mayans, their civilization is already in decadence and pretty much over by the time the Spaniards arrived. They pretty much over exploited their land to the point they had to abandon their cities. At that point in time the booming civilization were the Aztecs up north. Mayans were very advanced mathematicians and astronomers. They had the solar system mapped, had a calendar, observatories, had discovered 0, and could time astronomical events. The idea here is that the elites timed the sacrifices with the eclipse to show off their "magical" powers and keep control over the people.

The editing is HIlARIOUS and perfect timing. And your split-screens are actually about better than 90% of the reviewers we watch, really good content you folks have put together. peace-Detroit

Mayan’s knew an incredible amount about astronomy and mathematics. They knew what time that eclipse was going to happen. There scholars and people at the top of their government, didn’t share this information with the general populous. They could use this knowledge to mystify and control their people.

Saludos desde México ❤

"ahora no se si quiero ir a Cancún" jaja esa es la.mejor frase de reacción sobre películas que he oido.

This movie traumatised me when I was a kid and yes why tf was I watching it as kid, had a lot of teenage cousins and I was always tryna hang with them "fk around and find out" rewatched it when I got older and I'd say it's one of the best childhood movies 🤣🤣🤣

This is a Mel Gibson movie so the history is completely wrong. Just like Braveheart and Patriot. But it was fun storytelling. The people in the movie are Mayans. The timeline is completely wrong. The Spanish didn't discover any active Mayan cities like this, they arrived about 300 years after the last one fell. The Mayans didn't perform this kind of large scale sacrifice. The Aztecs did but typically used prisoners of war. The most historically accurate thing about this movie was probably the city people's clothing.

🇲🇽we have a lot of culture 🇲🇽

I recommend “society of the snow”