strictly a popcorn flick version of Joseph Campell's hero's journey that looks great even as it plays fast and very loose with geography, biology, and anything else that gets in its way
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03/16/08
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.
A blind man is brought up on a slab from beneath the earth, where he has spent years cooped up in cramped quarters with nothing to keep him entertained. After spending two hours in a darkened theater watching 10,000 B.C., I could relate.
03/16/08
One can only infer that, in order for it to be taken seriously, the makers expected audiences to forget pretty much every movie they'd ever seen before in their entire life.
03/15/08
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03/14/08
This year's first Event Movie is almost guaranteed to wind up as its dumbest.
03/13/08
Strait has to be one of the most unsympathetic cardboard heroes of the genre, while Bell leaves little reason to care for her beyond her bitching dreadlocks...
03/13/08
...lovesick prehistoric man traverses the globe to rescue the woman he loves.
03/12/08
It’s all just F/X opportunities, exposing Hollywood’s -- and our own -- non-relationship to history.
03/12/08
Neither grand enough to be impressive nor antic enough to be charming, the movie settles for bland and frantic, climaxing in a showdown among decadent pyramid builders.
03/12/08
Sets new standards for stupidity. This is like Uwe Boll with a budget. This is the village idiot of movies.
03/12/08
Making prehistoric people talk and behave just like modern people in a 10,000 B.C. setting makes actors look silly. Their costumes are silly, the settings are silly, and the whole movie is unintentionally funny.
03/11/08
My poor brain hung in there for as long as it could, but it lost its grip during the giant chicken attack and I haven't seen it since.
03/11/08
If Mel Gibson remade Apocalypto and cast it with the Geico cavemen, he might end up with something akin to 10,000 B.C..
03/11/08
Just where is Rachel Welsh in that buck skin bikini when you need her?
03/11/08
Just barely good enough to fulfill the needs of an audience starved for any sort of effects-driven film that hardly sticks in the brain for more than a few minutes after it's over.
03/11/08
Good special effects are expensive, so the filmmakers are forced to use unimpressive actors to fill in the spaces between the CGI creations.
03/11/08
'A sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophesies and gods,' according to the press notes; it's also a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age in which snow is referred to even by Ice Age veterans as 'the great white rain'...
03/10/08
While there are moments, '10,000 B.C.' never makes you jump. On the plus side, the movie isn't as lumbering as those digital elephantine beasts.
03/10/08
On a Neanderthal level, "10,000 B.C." works.
03/09/08
One of the stupidest and most boring films of the year.
03/09/08
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