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10,000 BC [2008]

Director: Roland Emmerich
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

27 reviews
Sales Rank: 32

Format: Pal
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 105
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

EAN: 7321902139685
ASIN: B0014W0E1S

Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: July 21, 2008 (New: This Week)
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Condition: Viewed once

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Amazon.co.uk Review
To anyone who has ever yearned to see woolly mammoths in full stampede across the Alps, 10,000 BC can be heartily recommended. There's also a flock of "terror birds" (lethal ostriches on steroids) in a steaming jungle only a splice away from the heroes' snow-dusted alpine habitat. And lo, somewhere in the vastness of the North African desert lies a city whose slave inhabitants alternately teem like the crowds in Quo Vadis during the burning of Rome and trudge in hieratically menacing formations like the workers in Metropolis. That's pretty much it for the cool stuff. Setting movies in prehistoric times is dicey. Apart from the "Dawn of Man" sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey, only Quest for Fire makes the grade, and its creators had the good sense to limit the dialogue to grunts and moans. 10,000 BC boasts a quasi-biblical narrator (Omar Sharif) and characters who speak in formed, albeit uninteresting, sentences (including a New Age-y "I understand your pain"). But let no one say the storytelling isn't primitive. The narrator speaks of "the legend of the child with the blue eyes" and bingo, here's the kid now. When, grown up to be Camilla Belle, she's carried off by "four-legged demons" (guys on horseback to you). The neighbour boy (Steven Strait) who hankers to make myth with her leads a rescue mission into the great unknown world beyond their mountaintop. His name is D'Leh, which is Held, the German for "knight," spelled backward. So yes, there is some hidden meaning after all.

10,000 BC is the latest triumph of the ersatz from writer-director Roland Emmerich. Like Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), and The Day After Tomorrow (2004) before it, it's shamelessly cobbled together out of every movie Emmerich can remember to pilfer from (though to be fair, the section in pre-ancient Egypt harks back to his own Stargate). Emmerich's saving grace is that his films' cheesiness is so flagrant, his narratives so geared for instant gratification, he can seem like a kid simultaneously improvising and acting out a story in his backyard: "P'tend there's this alien ... p'tend maybe he came from Atlantis or something...." Just don't p'tend it has anything to do with real moviemaking. --Richard T. Jameson

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2 out of 5 stars

Could have been so much better. July 25, 2008
I was exited about this film, and up untill last night i was looking forward to disagreeing with the vast majority of reviews I'd read. I really wanted to immerse myself into a film about a time so long ago, and I just couldn't, more specifically, i was never drawn in.

The problem for me starts with the director, with films such as Independance Day and The Day After Tomorrow, I kind of expected the movie to be more light hearted and cliche than not, but not to this extent. After watching films like Apocalypto, where I was completely immersed into the tribal culture of the central American tribes, where i really did care about the fate of the characters, the tribes of 10,000 BC were so obvious and stereotypical, I found myself not caring in the slightest.

Obviously some parts of this film were very unrealistic, but that never really bothers me, as most films are unrealistic. Its why we watch them, escapism. Because the acting and cinemaphotography was so substandard, it almost drew into the open every single imperfection about this film, and I really could not get into it. The love connection was poor between the two leads, I was unmoved throughout. The action, particularily the choreography, was really below par, not to mention predictable. I found myself telling my friend exactly who, how, and when someone was going to die,before it happened, and more often than not, i was spot on!

I really, really wish someone else had directed this film, because it should have been better, with the funding it had, the concept, everything was set for it to be great. And it wasn't.

To conclude, I would never say, don't watch this, but I will say, don't expect much. You may enjoy it as a kind of mindless spectacle, but it hardly makes you think, and it never makes you feel.

1 out of 5 stars

INFINITELY DIRE! July 25, 2008
I thought to myself, "Ah, a film about cavemen fighting woolly mammoths and sabre tooth tigers, now that sounds interesting!" Indeed, it should have been, but alas, it most definitely is not! What it succeeds in being, however, is one of the most incredibly dull films that I have ever been unfortunate enough to sit through! Bad acting, terrible direction, and an altogether weak cast doing their worst with a pathetic script, render this movie a 'must-miss'. 10,000BC doesn't so much rip off, but blatantly steals from Jurassic Park and Apocalypto (amongst others), whilst simultaneously managing to make you feel that you have seen this all somewhere before and carried out a hundred times better.

The trailers gave the promise of fighting cavemen, long-extinct beasts, and other exciting happenings- it all seemed so very promising- but this film fails to deliver on almost every single level! The script has all of the actors speaking perfect English with the most ridiculously obvious 'this is what cavemen might have sounded like had they spoken English' accents! Enormously insulting on so many levels! These accents did throw me somewhat at first as I thought this was going to be a much more authentic piece, rather than the perfect speaking 'Fred Flintstones' we were presented with here. Nevertheless, although their English was perfectly spoken, not one of these cavemen had anything of interest to say... ever! Furthermore, every new character (and I use the term lightly) that gets introduced into the lead characters' perilous journey was just as boring, nondescript, and insipid as the one before.
The terrible acting is by no means all of the actors' faults. The majority of the blame has to lie at the door of its writer/producer/director Roland Emmerich. The script is dire, and the direction is poor at best.

The most ridiculous scene in this movie (and the point I started to watch the DVD in fast forward) was between the lead actor and a CGI sabre tooth tiger. It will be at this point, no doubt, where you are likely to reach for the stop button, thank Roland Emmerich for ruining your evening and wonder if there is anything else on the TV.

Don't get me wrong, I love a big blockbuster. I adore big mainstream cinema when it is executed correctly by the likes of Speilberg (Jurassic Park, Jaws, and Indiana Jones etc). However, this is the worst example of Hollywood at its most grandiose and sickening. I can only pray that the Hollywood Money Men see the light and never let Roland Emmerich work again because, in my opinion, `Independence Day' is starting to look very much like a `One Hit Wonder'.

Quite simply this movie is unmemorable, unremarkable, badly made drivel. Indeed, how this film ever got a cinematic release astounds me! I suppose they just had to try and claw back the `mammoth' budget somehow!

Avoid, Avoid, Avoid! You have been warned!

1 out of 5 stars

wait till you can buy it in the bargain basement July 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

wanted to see this film at the cinema but didnt get the chance to, for which I am very glad, because I would have walked straight back out and demanded my money back!! for all the hype and excitement surrounding this film it is a total disappointment, honestly my 11 old son and I watched it, and was glad to see the end titles! absolute rubbish, no story, bad acting, no point! it just didnt make sense, if you want a crappy film to watch then by all means order it now, but you will be bored and at the end want to throw it into the fire!!!

1 out of 5 stars

This movie needs reporting to trades description!!! July 21, 2008
When I read the back of this dvd, I was promised a special effects extravaganza, with a large saber tooth tiger on the front looking to promise a movie full of action, adventure and special effects.

Instead I got thirty seconds of a sabre tooth tiger with 1hour 30 mins of a man resembling jesus walking across the bloomin desert. The acting was at times cheesy and cringeworthy, not to mention the cheesey storyline.

I really think if you are a director and you are going to put a huge photo of an exciting looking sabre tooth on the cover, then you really should let your audience actually see the thing for longer than a minute. very disapointed, reckon even the kids will hate it!! Only watch this movie when it comes on tv for free!

1 out of 5 stars

Makes you wonder if films are infact worse now than ever before July 16, 2008
10,000 bc is no doubt one of the worst films i've ever seen. When i first heard about the film i was quite up for going to see it. wish i had saved money and effort by not seeing it to be frank. the sheer un-realism of the film is ridiculous. the main character whose name is d'leh, where on earth a name like that came from is beyond me, chases around the world it seems to get back his girl who was taken. so he chases over what seems like mount everest to begin with, then straight away gets down the mountain then ends up in a lush rainforest?! really works your brain the whole film...

anyway i wont tell you the whole story incase your going to buy it.

to be honest i would like to see the director and writers and give them a slap round the face for wasting my time and money by going to see this film, no joke.