This movie is a fun watch. Especially if you can find it in the original Spanish version. (This one is the dubbed English version, although they do include some Nahuatl monologue or incantation, which is pretty cool.)
I don't take this too seriously, because it is for entertainment mostly. But it does, nonetheless, build upon the firmly established myths about the Aztecs and their religion. Primarily speaking, the topic of human sacrifice. So the question is, could anyone make a movie about Aztecs that does not involve a human sacrifice ritual? Not really. Because the idea of such rituals are treated as common, undisputed knowledge about that era. So the starting point is writing the stories that correct this terrible idea and build a new, more credible version of the past. Since historians use Spanish accounts about sacrifice as their basis, and we know they are not -- and could not ever be -- credible sources, since it was in their interests to paint the worst possible image of Aztec culture, then anybody in the present is free to propose alternate accounts that require little or no actual verification from actual, credible sources other than common sense.
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