
Apocalypse Now, Aguirre: Wrath Of God... It’s de rigueur to go nuts in the jungle. Take a camera and kiss sanity goodbye. But whatever Mel Gibson might have left in the Yucatan (that beard, for one), it wasn’t his talent. The pre-release talk is tabloid-tainted; and there has been subtextual chat of the parallels between the Mayan Empire on the slide and the America’s imperialist operation in Iraq, but on-screen Gibson is straightforward. He’s made a chase. And you’ve got to keep up.
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