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
10,000 B.C. (2008)
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Reviews Counted:139
Fresh:12
Rotten:127
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.
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,... [More]
Starring: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Tim Barlow
Director: Roland Emmerich
Reviews for 10,000 B.C.
Top CriticEven though there's never a hint of either research or gritty realism, it's still good fun.
03/14/08
Roland Emmerich's prehistoric odyssey 10,000 BC is his silliest, most preposterous blockbuster to date. But it's lots of fun, too.
03/14/08
Top CriticRoland Emmerich's great big CGI blockbuster lumbers along like one of the woolly mammoths that roam across the screen.
03/14/08
Top CriticDon't expect Roland Emmerich's 10,000BC to make much sense, historically, geographically or logically.
03/14/08
Top CriticIn 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.
03/14/08
Top CriticShould have been a lot more fun.
03/14/08
Top CriticRoland Emmerich loves to make big, dumb movies, and though this may not be his biggest, it's certainly his dumbest.
03/14/08
Take the kids along; unless you want them to grow up to be palaeontologists.
03/14/08
Top CriticA beggars 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.
03/14/08
Top CriticLike the lumbering mammoths, it is plodding and dull.
03/14/08
Top CriticWith too much talk, not enough adventure and a laughable disregard for geography and anthropology, 10,000 BC is less Jurassic Park than Pleistocene parp.
03/14/08
The mammoths arent all that is wild and woolly in this innocent, old-fashioned, amusingly self-important, entertainingly mad, rip-snorting throwback to vintage Saturday matinee fare.
03/14/08
Top CriticHeavy on moronic mysticism and light on imagination, excitement, and shot-to-shot coherence
08/27/09
10,000 BC takes film making back to the stone age...
08/03/09
Brace yourself for a mammoth disappointment.
07/24/09
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
07/22/08
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.
07/17/08
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.
06/28/08
A disaster that can't even get the computer generated images right.
06/20/08
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