This was a weird, dumb, fun, little movie. It's a "what if Hercules . . . was *real*" reinterpretation based (controversially!) on a comic book. It's Hercules using his legends as leverage to scare his enemies and get him big mercenary money. It's Hercules as a sort of con man, without the heavy art of "The Brothers Grimm". It's Hercules with a social media manager (his nephew).

This film has Ian McShane and John Hurt in it. Those two dudes…

"Apocalypto" is sheer power. It's razor sharp. It's a single foot chase stretched into a feature-length film. It's a filmed Disneyland attraction, for grown-ups. It's a chaotic tour of an interesting place, focusing on a character we learn just enough about to empathize with him. It's a concentrated delivery of all the promises of the earliest silent film: in styling this film, I wonder if its creators had made a conscious decision to use "Arrival of a Train at a…