Press: 'Apocalypto' is an insult to Maya culture, one expert says - AAS

(Austin American-Statesman) "My first reaction was to the extraordinary, gratuitous violence. And the ending with the arrival of the Spanish (conquistadors) underscored the film's message that this culture is doomed because of its own brutality. The implied message is that it's Christianity that saves these brutal savages. I think that's part of Gibson's agenda, sort of, 'We got the Jews last time (in 'The Passion of the Christ'), now we'll get the Maya.' And to highlight that point there's a lot of really offensive racial stereotyping."