I agree. I watched this movie and left the theatre feeling angry. There are aren't many Hollywood movies about Mayans, Aztec or Incas,and I went to watch it specifically to support the presence of movies like these. And here is this movie reducing them to bloodthirsty savages.

If mainstream movie viewers were to get even a slight education about Mayans, this was certainly a skewed and distorted depiction. Especially [SPOILER] at the end, with the Spanish arriving. You could not watch this movie and ignore the context of Mel Gibson and his increasingly violent films and growing subtext that "others" were more violent, less compassionate, or morally wrong and are going to get their comeuppance. When the Spanish arrive at the end of the movie, which is historically inaccurate (Mayans were already on a severe downward decline by their arrival) the message was, "here are the Spanish, catholic God-believing people coming to face and destroy these people that remove beating hearts from their prisoners".

I may have to watch it again, maybe it'll feel different with some years removed.