true to form

Mel Gibson's Apocalypto:

Newsweek's David Ansen observes that Gibson here "returns to his favorite theme: nearly naked men being tortured. Repeatedly. Imaginatively. At great length."

Slate's Dana Stevens writes, "You don't leave Apocalypto thinking of the decline of civilizations or the power of myth or anything much except, wow, that is one sick son of a bitch."