10,000 B.C. (2008)
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Reviews Counted: 145
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 133
With attention strictly paid to style instead of substance, or historical accuracy, 10,000 B.C. is a visually impressive but narratively flimsy epic.
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 29
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,
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Cast
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Steven Strait
D'Leh -
Camilla Belle
Evolet -
Cliff Curtis
Tic Tic -
Joel Virgel
Nakudu -
Ben Badra
Warlord -
Mo Zainal
Ka'ren -
Nathanael Baring
Baku -
Mona Hammond
Old Mother -
Marco Khan
One-Eye -
Reece Ritchie
Moha -
Joel Fry
Lu'Hibu -
Omar Sharif
Narrator -
David Dennis
Slave Guard #1 -
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All Critics (146) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (137) | DVD (8)
It's a horrible movie.
Top CriticLike the lumbering mammoths, it is plodding and dull.
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.
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.
This much-delayed film cries out for consideration for Worst CGI, Most Annoying Narrator, Lamest Dialogue and Dumbest Action Hero.
Even a cameo by Pauly Shore in Encino Man would liven up this bombastic bore.
A lousier adventure movie you won't find this year: 10,000 B.C. belongs, if not back in the stone age, then at least back in the mid '90s, where this sort of mindless, effects-driven drivel is best left.
All [Emmerich] cares about is not being boring. On that level, he succeeds.
One of the biggest problems with the film is the casting.
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.
Violent, poorly conceived prehistoric action.
Heavy on moronic mysticism and light on imagination, excitement, and shot-to-shot coherence
10,000 BC takes film making back to the stone age...
Brace yourself for a mammoth disappointment.
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
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.
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.
... a dull, dumb compendium of recycled adventure epic clichés.
...a story that fails to engage us and characters who fail to involve us...the movie is plain, old-fashioned dull. (Blu-ray Edition)
A disaster that can't even get the computer generated images right.
Feels as if it was dreamt up by an eight-year-old.
...most of the film is simply a matter of waiting for it to end.
Audience Reviews for 10,000 B.C.
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 with 2012, the monster movie with Eight Legged Freaks. His only remotely good film i've seen is his under rated Godzilla remake. Anyway, Roland Emmerich's next commercially sucessful but genuinely bad film in terms of anything else is here. 10000 BC has one of the most uninspired scripts ever written. Like Independence Day it is CGI overload with too much aggresiveness. In other words it's trying to make itself look better then it actually is. A terrible plot and no characterisation whatsoever 10000 BC is another big-scale marketing scheme for audience's that dont know any better.
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- Tic Tic: Don't forget to chew.
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- Narrator: The white rain is not a friend to the hunter.
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- Tic Tic: I cannot see in the dark. Can you?
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- D'Leh: Do not eat me when I set you free!
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- Nakudu: You speak to the spear tooth?
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- D'Leh: He is not a god!
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