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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
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.
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.
Top CriticDirector Roland Emmerich has swapped disaster movies like The Day After Tomorrow and Godzilla for, well, a disaster of a movie.
Top CriticRoland Emmerich loves to make big, dumb movies, and though this may not be his biggest, it's certainly his dumbest.
Should have been a lot more fun.
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.
Like the lumbering mammoths, it is plodding and dull.
Top CriticRoland Emmerich's great big CGI blockbuster lumbers along like one of the woolly mammoths that roam across the screen.
Top CriticEven though there's never a hint of either research or gritty realism, it's still good fun.
Don't expect Roland Emmerich's 10,000BC to make much sense, historically, geographically or logically.
Top CriticThe 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.
Top CriticTake the kids along; unless you want them to grow up to be palaeontologists.
Top CriticRoland Emmerich's prehistoric odyssey 10,000 BC is his silliest, most preposterous blockbuster to date. But it's lots of fun, too.
Top CriticIt’s best not to think too hard about anything in 10,000 BC, a sublimely dunderheaded excursion into human prehistory.
Top CriticThis year's first Event Movie is almost guaranteed to wind up as its dumbest.
In fact, while sitting through this banal attempt at a big-scale epic, I could not help but go through a checklist in my mind of all the movies "10,000 B.C." borrows from.
Almost worth sitting through the first half for the revelatory moment when you're forced to ask yourself: Is nearly the entire cast suddenly being attacked by what look like cracked-out ostriches? Why, yes, yes they are.
A lovely-to-look-at but ultimately forgettable adventure flick that feels like a cross between Land of the Pharaohs and the greatest hits of Joseph Campbell.
The mammoths are cool. The squealing killer ostriches, perhaps inspired by ancient phorusrhacid fossils, are idiotic but... okay, they're idiotic.
Overblown and stupefyingly dull.
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