Apocalypto Review

The review is from a university expert on things Mayan. He says (in part):

A solar eclipse interrupts a sadistic mass human sacrifice during the climax of Apocalypto, briefly sparing the film’s audience and its protagonist, Jaguar Paw, from the relentless savagery of deranged Maya characters. Unfortunately, like much in the movie, the eclipse severely distorts reality, erroneously placing the event on a full moon, an astronomical impossibility any ancient Maya astronomer would have immediately recognized. But the film’s poor understanding of the heavens is a minor mistake when compared to its wholesale misrepresentation of the Mayan world.