Knocked a point off for the ending **Spoilers**
After all that effort, luck, and inventiveness, I thought the end was a total copout, and typical Mel Gibson Catholic bs.
However, it did mesh nicely with the little girl's prophecy.
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GForce59
No.
On the day the Spanish arrived some guy in the jungle happened to be running away from some other guys in a jungle.
Zero coincidence required if you look at that way round.
If only you could see what I have seen through your eyes.
SeasonalAffective
I just thought the ending was rather hokey and contrived.
It just so happens that after all that, the Spanish decide to arrive on that day and begin their conquest. Wow, what a coincidence.
A movie is not about what it's about; it's about how it's about it. - Roger Ebert
Aveme
To fulfill the prophecy foretold was the point, wasn't it? And the fact that the Spanish conquistadors were fierce in their Catholicism--for all the good and evil (depending on your political or historical bias) that entailed is just history. Sure, Gibson's Catholic faith informs this movie just as it did The Passion and Braveheart, but what else could he do? Make the original Spanish expolorers Lutheran or Muslim?
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