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10,000 B.C. (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 135

Fresh: 12

Rotten:123

Average Rating: 3.2/10

Consensus: With attention strictly paid to style instead of substance, or historical accuracy, 10,000 B.C. is a visually impressive but narratively flimsy epic.

Rated: 12A

Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

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,... 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. [More]

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

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

Director: Roland Emmerich

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

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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
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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
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Roland Emmerich's prehistoric odyssey 10,000 BC is his silliest, most preposterous blockbuster to date. But it's lots of fun, too.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment 1 Comment
03/14/08
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
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
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
Daily Mirror [UK]
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Should have been a lot more fun.

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03/14/08
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
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

Take the kids along; unless you want them to grow up to be palaeontologists.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment 1 Comment
03/14/08
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.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
03/14/08
Total Film
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Like the lumbering mammoths, it is plodding and dull.

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03/14/08
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
Elliott Noble
Sky Movies

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.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment 2 Comments
03/14/08
Empire Magazine
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People expecting a fun action movie will be severely disappointed. If you get drunk with some buddies and go to make fun of it, you might like it more. But that doesn't make it a good movie

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07/22/08
Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine

Would make a good drinking game; silly fun but not "good." A critic sitting near me snorted in derision at my "the costumes kicked ass," but I won't back down. They were really cool.

Full Review Source: Cinerina | comment Comment
07/17/08
Karina Montgomery
Cinerina

I can't help but think that 10,000 BC started out as an idea that sounded like, "Wouldn't it be cool if we had wooly mammoths and saber toothed tigers and people all in the same movie?" and went from there.

Full Review Source: Movie Views | comment Comment
06/28/08
Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views

A disaster that can't even get the computer generated images right.

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06/20/08
Willie Waffle
WaffleMovies.com

...most of the film is simply a matter of waiting for it to end.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
06/17/08
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

Ready to rumble, scantily clad Neanderthals gone wild, gliding around the globe faster than high speed Internet. And while dodging seemingly nearsighted menacing reptiles with bad manners, whose oversized choppers repeatedly miss their mark.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment 1 Comment
06/14/08
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze

But the folks who made 10,000 B.C. have filled their film with a sub-Disney plot and inserted a few measly slivers of action that hardly warrant all the mystical hubbub and romantic angst.

Full Review Source: Paste Magazine | comment Comment
06/08/08
Robert Davis
Paste Magazine
 
 
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