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10,000 B.C.

10,000 B.C. (2008)

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Average Rating: 3.2/10
Reviews Counted: 142
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 130

With attention strictly paid to style instead of substance, or historical accuracy, 10,000 B.C. is a visually impressive but narratively flimsy epic.

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Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 27

With attention strictly paid to style instead of substance, or historical accuracy, 10,000 B.C. is a visually impressive but narratively flimsy epic.

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A young outcast from a primitive tribe is forced to defend his people from a brutal onslaught in Independence Day director Roland Emmerich's fast-paced period adventure. Despite the fact that he is low man on the totem pole in his tribe of fearless hunters, a brave young boy (Steven Strait) longs to win the heart of a beautiful princess (Camilla Belle) who is well above his station in life. When an overwhelming horde of powerful invaders forces the hunters into slavery and abducts the princess,

Jun 24, 2008

$94.8M

Warner Bros. Pictures

All Critics (142) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (134) | DVD (8)

It's a horrible movie.

March 17, 2008 Comments (9)
Ebert & Roeper
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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.

March 12, 2008 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment (1)
Entertainment Weekly
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One part Joseph Campbell hero quest, one part multi-culti morality tale, one part live-action Flintstones cartoon, 10,000 B.C. is finally every part just plain nuts.

March 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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This much-delayed film cries out for consideration for Worst CGI, Most Annoying Narrator, Lamest Dialogue and Dumbest Action Hero.

March 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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Even a cameo by Pauly Shore in Encino Man would liven up this bombastic bore.

March 7, 2008 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
USA Today
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10,000 BC would be much better if it allowed itself the freedom to be kitsch.

March 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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All [Emmerich] cares about is not being boring. On that level, he succeeds.

April 3, 2012 Full Review Source: Time Out Chicago | Comment

One of the biggest problems with the film is the casting.

February 14, 2012 Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | Comment
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

Some backgrounds look as though Roland Emmerich and crew broke into a museum after hours and filmed in dioramas. Rather than a disaster film, this was just plain disaster - a departure from Emmerich's usually effective milieu and his most moronic movie.

September 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com | Comment (1)
Suite101.com

Violent, poorly conceived prehistoric action.

August 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment (1)
Common Sense Media

Heavy on moronic mysticism and light on imagination, excitement, and shot-to-shot coherence

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comments (2)
CinePassion

10,000 BC takes film making back to the stone age...

August 3, 2009 Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review | Comments (2)
3BlackChicks Review

Brace yourself for a mammoth disappointment.

July 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Times-Picayune | Comment (1)
Times-Picayune

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

July 22, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)
Sin Magazine

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.

July 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinerina | Comment (1)

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.

June 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Views | Comment (1)

... a dull, dumb compendium of recycled adventure epic clichés.

June 27, 2008 Full Review Source: MSN.com | Comment
MSN.com

...a story that fails to engage us and characters who fail to involve us...the movie is plain, old-fashioned dull. (Blu-ray Edition)

June 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

A disaster that can't even get the computer generated images right.

June 20, 2008 Full Review Source: WaffleMovies.com | Comment (1)
WaffleMovies.com

Feels as if it was dreamt up by an eight-year-old.

June 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page | Comment

...most of the film is simply a matter of waiting for it to end.

June 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment (1)
Movie Metropolis

Ready to rumble, scantily clad Neanderthals gone wild, gliding around the globe faster than high speed Internet. And while dodging seemingly nearsighted menacing reptiles with bad manners, whose oversized choppers repeatedly miss their mark.

June 14, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comments (2)
NewsBlaze

Ready to rumble, scantily clad Neanderthals gone wild, gliding around the globe faster than high speed Internet. And while dodging seemingly nearsighted menacing reptiles with bad manners, whose oversized choppers repeatedly miss their mark.

June 14, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
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Audience Reviews for 10,000 B.C.

I went in expecting less and a had a fun action packed ride. Was looking for a good fast action movie with nice effects and thats what I got.

August 22, 2008
jmanard52

Super Reviewer

This continues Roland Emmerich's mission to go through every type of action movie and completely destroy the sub genre's reputation with arguably his worst film to date. One of the first being sci-fi thriller with Independence Day, followed by the disaster movie genre with The Day after Tommorow and then even worse

October 30, 2011
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