Mel Gibson blasts Bush by comparing him to the blood-thirsty Mayan rulers featured in his new film:

Apocalypto - due to hit cinemas later this year - choronicles the disintegration of the Maya civilisation and its leaders' desperate attempts to prevent the collapse through sacrificing thousands of people.

Gibson told Hotdog magazine: "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys."