it is hard to be enthralled with the dusty, warmed-over romantic fixations of what is essentially a very handsome cave-couple
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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:2008
Box Office: $94,770,548
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
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Reviews for 10,000 B.C.
It's just a wrong movie altogether, an elaborately nonsensical stew of crazy costumes, bizarre accessories, and funny voices.
03/22/08
Surely it's only coincidence that the sign of D'Leh's accomplishment is a White Spear.
03/21/08
You actually have to feel sorry for the actors, one of which is New Zealander Cliff Curtis, the only person I recognised.
03/19/08
I don't know about you, but if I want to get excited about an ancient mammal I'll tune in Janice Dickinson.
03/18/08
With a dreadfully dull story and performances as petrified as 12,000-year-old wooden artifacts, 10,000 BC shambles along as if on a march to its own extinction.
03/17/08
It’s a horrible movie.
03/17/08
Top Criticstrictly 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
03/16/08
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
Director Roland Emmerich has swapped disaster movies like The Day After Tomorrow and Godzilla for, well, a disaster of a movie.
03/14/08
Even though there's never a hint of either research or gritty realism, it's still good fun.
03/14/08
Roland Emmerich's prehistoric odyssey 10,000 BC is his silliest, most preposterous blockbuster to date. But it's lots of fun, too.
03/14/08
Roland Emmerich's great big CGI blockbuster lumbers along like one of the woolly mammoths that roam across the screen.
03/14/08
Don't expect Roland Emmerich's 10,000BC to make much sense, historically, geographically or logically.
03/14/08
In what might be a record, the makers of this prehistoric drama spent two years and £20m fine-tuning the special effects to ensure its cast of mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers and maneating birds looked as realistic as possible.
03/14/08
Should have been a lot more fun.
03/14/08
Roland Emmerich loves to make big, dumb movies, and though this may not be his biggest, it's certainly his dumbest.
03/14/08
Take the kids along; unless you want them to grow up to be palaeontologists.
03/14/08
A beggar’s banquet of milky CGI beasties and clunky battle-porn set-pieces, 10,000 B.C. is an extravagant waste of time, money and effort. Fans of caveman antics may want to go with something more historically accurate. Like The Flintstones.
03/14/08
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