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Apocalypse Island (2010)
Good photography and CGI but totally fake.
The "documentary" is typical of the "ancient mysteries revealed" category - a lot of exaggerated statements and wild suppositions. The difficulty in getting to the "remote" island, which is really Robinson Crusoe Island, by fishing boat is laughable since there is a town there with a few hundred people and regular ferry service, not to mention the airstrip - its about a 3 hr. trip from the mainland. The film crew messed up a couple times in the "trek up the wild terrain to the monument" segments by showing the explorers walking a well maintained path and a string of guide posts (or maybe a fence?) across the hillside. As for the mysterious "Mayan" monument, well, it's a typical volcanic column and dike left from earlier activity after the surrounding softer rock has eroded away. The reason I gave it a 2 instead of a 1 is for the work of the photo crew and the cool Mayan mystical graphics and astronomical event simulations they interjected at various points in the story. Nice fantasy, but even the ancient Mayans would be laughing at this one. Maybe it was all a ploy to get more tourists to come and spend money?