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10,000 B.C. (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 126 Fresh: 11  Rotten:115 Average Rating: 3.2/10
 
Consensus: A visually impressive but narratively flimsy epic. With attention strictly paid to style instead of substance, or historical accuracy, 10,000 B.C. is a visually impressive but narratively flimsy epic. more
 
Rated: 12A
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Theatrical Release: 14-03-2008
Synopsis:
Director Roland Emmerich weaves myth and legend together in this epic love story. As the Ice Age is ending, the Yagahl people are struggling to survive. When Evolet (Camilla Belle), a young, blue-eyed girl is found and brought back to the tribe, their esteemed elder, Old Mother (Mona... [More]
Director Roland Emmerich weaves myth and legend together in this epic love story. As the Ice Age is ending, the Yagahl people are struggling to survive. When Evolet (Camilla Belle), a young, blue-eyed girl is found and brought back to the tribe, their esteemed elder, Old Mother (Mona Hammond), realizes that the child is fulfilling a prophecy and will be instrumental in saving the Yagahl. D'Leh (Steven Strait) swore his heart to Evolet when she first came to the tribe, and after many years claims her as his own. But no sooner are the young lovers together, than they are torn apart by mysterious men arriving on horseback who kidnap many of the Yagahl, including Evolet, for slave trade. Determined to save his love and their people, D'Leh embarks on a rescue mission with his father figure Tic'Tic (Cliff Curtis). Along the way, they encounter different lands, new people, and strange creatures including giant birds akin to a killer ostrich. Mixing history and fantasy, there is little (if anything) that is historically accurate in this film. Rather, Emmerich weaves together myths and legends to unite people from different lands into one force and bring down a great evil that threatens all of their civilizations. Emmerich also tackles multiple universal themes: the redemption of an outsider, the coming of age of a boy who becomes a leader, the importance of loyalty, and the discovery and understanding of new cultures. Ultimately, he tackles the age-old saga of star-crossed lovers and the power of love. Omar Sharif narrates this love story that spans mountains, valleys, deserts, and rivers. [Less]

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Omar Sharif, Tim Barlow

Director: Roland Emmerich
Screenwriter: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser
Producer: Michael Wimer, Roland Emmerich, Mark Gordon
Composer: Harald Kloser, Thomas Wander

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Director Roland Emmerich has swapped disaster movies like The Day After Tomorrow and Godzilla for, well, a disaster of a movie.

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03/14/08 10:58 AM
Sun Online
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Even though there's never a hint of either research or gritty realism, it's still good fun.

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03/14/08 10:56 AM
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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Roland Emmerich's prehistoric odyssey 10,000 BC is his silliest, most preposterous blockbuster to date. But it's lots of fun, too.

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03/14/08 10:52 AM
Sukhdev Sandhu
Daily Telegraph
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Roland Emmerich's great big CGI blockbuster lumbers along like one of the woolly mammoths that roam across the screen.

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03/14/08 10:41 AM
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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Don't expect Roland Emmerich's 10,000BC to make much sense, historically, geographically or logically.

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03/14/08 10:37 AM
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]
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In what might be a record, the makers of this prehistoric drama spent two years and £20m fine-tuning the special effects to ensure its cast of mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers and maneating birds looked as realistic as possible.

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03/14/08 10:22 AM
Daily Mirror [UK]
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Should have been a lot more fun.

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03/14/08 10:03 AM
Daniel Etherington
Channel 4 Film
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Roland Emmerich loves to make big, dumb movies, and though this may not be his biggest, it's certainly his dumbest.

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03/14/08 09:47 AM
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]
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Take the kids along; unless you want them to grow up to be palaeontologists.

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03/14/08 09:24 AM
Paul Arendt
BBC
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A beggar’s banquet of milky CGI beasties and clunky battle-porn set-pieces, 10,000 B.C. is an extravagant waste of time, money and effort. Fans of caveman antics may want to go with something more historically accurate. Like The Flintstones.

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03/14/08 08:29 AM
Total Film
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Like the lumbering mammoths, it is plodding and dull.

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03/14/08 07:04 AM
Nigel Floyd
Time Out
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With too much talk, not enough adventure and a laughable disregard for geography and anthropology, 10,000 BC is less Jurassic Park than Pleistocene parp.

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03/14/08 05:33 AM
Elliott Noble
Sky Movies
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The mammoths aren’t all that is wild and woolly in this innocent, old-fashioned, amusingly self-important, entertainingly mad, rip-snorting throwback to vintage Saturday matinee fare.

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03/14/08 03:15 AM
Empire Magazine
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If you absolutely must endure 10,000 BC, do as we did and take along a pencil - jabbing the nib in your eye might be the only way to regain a sense of feeling after the dumbest, naffest cinematic violation of your life.

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05/13/08 03:06 PM
Chris Laverty
Mansized
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The filmmakers should be ashamed of themselves for even allowing this movie to enter a movie theatre. It was like a bad made for TV special that you would see on ABC or NBC.

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05/12/08 09:25 PM
Kevin McCarthy
BDK Reviews (CBS Radio)
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05/06/08 03:44 AM
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses
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One of the worst movies I've ever seen.

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05/04/08 01:18 AM
Bob Grimm
Tucson Weekly
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crap, and more crap in a crap bucket

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05/02/08 01:08 PM
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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The actors speak in fluent anachronistic English. The dialogue is prehistoric but not in the way Emmerich intended.

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04/15/08 06:42 PM
Mike Sage
Peterborough This Week
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It's a film that countryman Uwe Boll would have made had he the budget and the cinematographer

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04/02/08 05:24 PM
Walter Chaw
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