In the realm of heroic historical loincloth adventures, 10,000 is much less than 300.
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03/06/08
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.
It’s best not to think too hard about anything in 10,000 BC, a sublimely dunderheaded excursion into human prehistory.
03/06/08
Top CriticWhile the movie is completely ridiculous, at least it's fun to think of all the high school students who are going to mistake this movie for an accurate historical record and get F's on their next pop quiz.
03/06/08
Emmerich knows how to fill the screen with spectacle, but not how to field-marshal it.
03/06/08
Digital imagery imagines a striking prehistoric world for these back-to-basics heroes, villains and raging beasts.
03/06/08
Top CriticAn epic adventure of such towering testosterone counts and ceaseless tedium, you can almost feel the hair growing on your chest as the bags collect beneath your eyes.
03/06/08
Rather than taking the trouble to imagine what early civilization might have been like -- its culture, its language, its warfare, its family life -- the movie simply transposes a banal Hollywood epic into Paleolithic times.
03/06/08
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.
03/06/08
Worst of all, no one even gets eaten by the disappointingly tame saber-toothed tiger.
03/06/08
A mix of vast CGI spectacle and small, silly moments, the prehistoric saga 10,000 BC is an epic in name only.
03/06/08
Conventional where it should be bold and mild where it should be wild, 10,000 BC reps a missed opportunity to present an imaginative vision of a prehistoric moment.
03/06/08
Top CriticSometimes you have a hankering for a slab of 10,000-year-old cheese. Here it is, on a cracker.
03/06/08
May indeed last until the end of time, kept alive in drinking games and in history and geography classrooms on April Fool's Day.
03/06/08
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.
03/06/08
This crackpot combination of Pathfinder and Apocalypto [is] a brainless exercise in prehistoric goofiness that actually affords more laughs than Ice Age.
03/06/08
I can't figure out exactly when the film 10,000 B.C. is set, but it's definitely ancient times. Like before they had cars, guns or tabloid blogs. And definitely before they had cohesive plots or dialogue that made sense.
03/06/08
A tedious bore in which grubby people stand around muttering in a variety of badly chosen accents.
03/05/08
Emmerich's epic is a formulaic mishmash of a movie, visually sweeping but silly blend of actioner, adventure, man vs. nature, man vs. animal -- above all, a reminder of how superior Mel Gibson's Apocalypto was.
03/05/08
The mammoths, the savage, beaked jungle beasts and the giant sabre tooth tiger all make splendid appearances. The spectacular landscapes of desert, mountain, river and jungle also deliver the images we are expecting. It's the humans who let us down.
03/01/08
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