10,000 B.C. takes a prehistoric approach to storytelling.
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03/07/08
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.
This may well be the first prehistoric epic in which the liberal deployment of such words as "oog," "agh" and "uck" would have actually improved the screenplay considerably.
03/07/08
As a series of set pieces looking for any available fable to keep it afloat, 10,000 BC is really nothing more than computing power and implausibility.
03/07/08
Director Roland Emmerich is the ultimate spectacle over substance filmmaker. He actually makes Michael Bay look like Stanley Kubrick by comparison.
03/07/08
If you are ten years old fan of video games with a short attention span and no knowledge of history, you will love this movie. The further you stray from these core qualifications, the less you will love it.
03/07/08
...it's laughably bad, which means that if you can approach it as a really stupid film you just might find yourself enjoying it.
03/07/08
The film proves to be uncharacteristically restrained.
03/07/08
Would that Emmerich took as much care with his human characters as with inanimate objects and CGI animals.
03/07/08
... a dull compendium of recycled adventure epic cliches.
03/06/08
Roland Emmerich has a remarkable talent for draining all the life out of interesting stories.
03/06/08
The film's heart is in the right place, but its script is not evolved enough to deliver the message without the constant clout of a caveman's club.
03/06/08
The kind of movie that people will discover new and hilarious ways to mock for years to come.
03/06/08
I have to give Emmerich credit for creating a film that's been funnier than '27 Dresses' or 'Over Her Dead Body.'
03/06/08
CGI effects are letter perfect believable. The opening mastodon hunt/stampede is as good as effects seen in the recent 'King Kong,' greatly enhancing the film.
03/06/08
about as slow and lumbering as a wounded manuk.
03/06/08
Emmerich has never been one to rely on the wizardry of nuance, but I was stunned to feel numb to nearly everything B.C. offered, as if my mind immediately detected a filmmaker looking to brazenly cash in on his past successes.
03/06/08
In an age where ... audiences reward blood-and-thunder films ... at the box office, greenlighting 10,000 B.C. must have seemed logical. I can imagine someone pitching the film ...by saying "It's like 300 .... plus 9,700!"
03/06/08
Roland Emmerich is partial to cutting-edge special effects and stone-age storytelling, meaning that 10,000 B.C., a dim-witted CG extravaganza set in prehistoric times, is something like his ideal project.
03/06/08
An atrocious waste of a perfectly good CGI budget ... at least the Geico commercials make an effort to get the historical accuracy right
03/06/08
The little-prehistoric-epic-that-could actually delivers an entertaining couple of hours.
03/06/08
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