It got to the point early on in the film and managed to keep good density of new information. They interviewed a nice selection of scholars who I am otherwise unfamiliar with but who are hopefully legit (I did notice that their credentials at the bottom of the screen said "Author of [book]" rather than "Professor of [science] at [respected university]"... oh well). I was pleased to see that not all of the scholars agreed with each other, which tells me that the filmmakers were looking to provide various information about the subject rather than promote an agenda or to try to make one "expert" look good. I noticed that one CG graphic about solar flares weakening the Earth's electromagnetic field and potentially damaging the planet was also used in the other documentary, 2012: Mayan Prophecy. Since Science Or Superstition predates the other film by a year, I can know that either it originally created the CG sequence or else both films took it from a common source (I'm just glad that this one didn't copy it from the inferior version).
Overall, I found this documentary very informative and well made. Admittedly, I might have a slightly inflated impression of it because I watched it immediately after the other documentary that I liked much less. The disadvantage to this version was that it was so dense with pertinent information that I found my attention drifting (fatigue) at times. Though that might also be due to the fact that I watched two films at the end of a long day. For me, the film gets about 4 stars. If you don't like documentaries, then for goodness sake don't watch this... but if you're interested in learning a bit more about the Mayan myth and the astronomical events occurring, then this is a good way to get some information in a pretty short amount of time.
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