Apocalypto isn't really about the Mayans as much as it contains them, though, is it? For me it was just a conventional chase movie with at least one gorgeous scene.

The Passion of the Christ was awful, I thought. I cannot really remember one lasting image in the entire thing. It had no narrative drive or purpose; there was certainly no arc there in any of the characters, and little emotional award. I think if anybody did have some emotional response to the film, whether in love or hate, it would have stemmed from religious views which stand outside and regardless of the actual film or the experience of watching it. It was not killed by horrid editing and dubious CGI.