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To anyone who has ever yearned to see woolly mammoths in full stampede across the Alps, 10,000 BC can be heartily recommended. There's also a flock of "terror birds" (lethal ostriches on steroids) in a steaming jungle only a splice away from the heroes' snow-dusted alpine habitat. And lo, somewhere in the vastness of the North African desert lies a city whose slave inhabitants alternately teem like the crowds in Quo Vadis during the burning of Rome and trudge in hieratically menacing formations like the workers in Metropolis. That's pretty much it for the cool stuff. Setting movies in prehistoric times is dicey. Apart from the "Dawn of Man" sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey, only Quest for Fire makes the grade, and its creators had the good sense to limit the dialogue to grunts and moans. 10,000 BC boasts a quasi-biblical narrator (Omar Sharif) and characters who speak in formed, albeit uninteresting, sentences (including a New Age–y "I understand your pain"). But let no one say the storytelling isn't primitive. The narrator speaks of "the legend of the child with the blue eyes" and bingo, here's the kid now. When, grown up to be Camilla Belle, she's carried off by "four-legged demons" (guys on horseback to you). The neighbour boy (Steven Strait) who hankers to make myth with her leads a rescue mission into the great unknown world beyond their mountaintop. His name is D'Leh, which is Held, the German for "knight," spelled backward. So yes, there is some hidden meaning after all. 10,000 BC is the latest triumph of the ersatz from writer-director Roland Emmerich. Like Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), and The Day After Tomorrow (2004) before it, it's shamelessly cobbled together out of every movie Emmerich can remember to pilfer from (though to be fair, the section in pre-ancient Egypt harks back to his own Stargate). Emmerich's saving grace is that his films' cheesiness is so flagrant, his narratives so geared for instant gratification, he can seem like a kid simultaneously improvising and acting out a story in his backyard: "P'tend there's this alien ... p'tend maybe he came from Atlantis or something...." Just don't p'tend it has anything to do with real movie-making. --Richard T. Jameson
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Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Omar Sharif, Steven StraitDirector: Roland Emmerich
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Mislead by the title I was expecting that at least a little bit of historical and archaeological research had influenced this movie. But that is certainly not the case at all. I'm not even sure if it's a good movie for kids (or adults), as they might get totally wrong ideas of prehistory and history. From an historical and archaeological point of view it's a total catastrophy. Horsemen 10,000 BC? Pyramids built in the Upper Palaeolithic period? With the help of the woolly mammoth??? Advanced shipping and sailing techniques and iron swords used by arabic looking tribes 12,000 years before present times??
Well..what can I say...
Half way through, the similarities with stargate are quite obvious. And it suddenly becomes clear that the only thing that justifies the title is the appearance of the mammoth and maybe the sabor tooth tiger (just about). Everything else is a wild fantasy.
Well..what can I say...
Half way through, the similarities with stargate are quite obvious. And it suddenly becomes clear that the only thing that justifies the title is the appearance of the mammoth and maybe the sabor tooth tiger (just about). Everything else is a wild fantasy.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
ok, alot of people watched this movie and gave it really bad reviews, you can see that in the reviews here in amazon and u can also see it in the IMDB rating...however, I bought this movie and watched it...
I really enjoyed the story, its nice and it keeps you wanting more...it also looks amazing on blu-ray...if u r the kind who only watched a movie for action and thrills then most probably u wont like the movie, but if u r into a nice story with great special effects, then this movie is for u...
I give this movie a 4/5 stars and i recommend it for blu-ray fans, if ur not gonna buy it, rent it and check it out atleast...
I really enjoyed the story, its nice and it keeps you wanting more...it also looks amazing on blu-ray...if u r the kind who only watched a movie for action and thrills then most probably u wont like the movie, but if u r into a nice story with great special effects, then this movie is for u...
I give this movie a 4/5 stars and i recommend it for blu-ray fans, if ur not gonna buy it, rent it and check it out atleast...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Was this magnificent movie-making? No. But it was an enjoyable ride all the same and I liked it despite its clunky script. It didn't really pretend to be much more than it was - a popcorn movie for a rainy Sunday afternoon. Don't analyse it. Don't expect historical accuracy or intellectual depth. Just enjoy the romp and you'll probably find it's better than you expected.
I'm willing to pay £8 for a Blu-Ray copy just for the scene with the big cat in the pit, alone!
I'm willing to pay £8 for a Blu-Ray copy just for the scene with the big cat in the pit, alone!
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Dreadful, dreadful,dreadful... you get the idea
I quite liked the look of this, and I must confess, bought it without reading any reviews. Silly me. What a dreadful (sorry) film. Read more
Published 1 month ago by N. Davey
This was surprisingly ok to watch
If you like a bit of dino action and an easy to follow story, this is more enjoyable than I thought it would be.
Published 2 months ago by Stuart D
Better Than You Would Think
I caught the bit of this on TV where he first meets the Sabre Tooth Cat in the pit. 'Nuff said, as I ain't gonna spoil the story by saying more. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Filthy Raider
If you want to be sure, only need to be 120 centuries old
This film is very good. I'm unable to say right now if 100 centuries before Christ there was prehistory or protohistory, or if there existed sabre- tigers, although sure yes the... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Carlos Vazquez Quintana
Great CGI, basic between the lines
Again, one man among different tribes, is going to save them all! What's the colour of his skin? What's the anatomy of the saviour, again? You guess. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Ariel Guerra
10,000 B.C.
Corny, but I've seen worse. The sabre-toothed tiger (presumably CGI?) is awful. Nice way to whittle away a couple of hours though with popcorn
Published 7 months ago by Celtic Dragon
brilliant
romantic and adventurous. a tribe gets attacked and some members are kidnapped, its up to 3 other members to save them.
Published 7 months ago by jujules
awful
this dvd is available for one penny on amazon ,that really should be warning enough,indeed the sight of stone age man using steel swords thousands of years before there... Read more
Published 14 months ago by johhn
A Little Disapointing
I brought this tittle expecting great graffics,and plenty of action. The story line is good but the film needs extending (filling out with additional action and beasts). Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mr. Steven Fynn
Not half as much fun as it sounds
A movie as bonkers as Roland Emmerich's 10,000 B.C. really ought to be a lot more fun than this actually is. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Trevor Willsmer
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