10,000 B.C.
starring: Camilla Belle, Steven Strait, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel, Mo Zinal
directed by: Roland Emmerich
directed by: Roland Emmerich
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From director Roland Emmerich comes a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophesies and gods, when spirits rule the land and mighty mammoths shake the earth. In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter, D'Leh (Steven Strait), has found his heart's passion - the beautiful Evolet (Camilla Belle). When a band of mysterious warlords raid his village and kidnap Evolet, D'Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-tooth tigers and prehistoric predators and, at their heroic journey's end, they uncover a Lost Civilization. Their ultimate fate lies in an empire beyond imagination, where great pyramids reach into the skies. Here they will take their stand against a powerful god who has brutally enslaved their people.
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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 neighbor 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
From director Roland Emmerich comes a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophesies and gods, when spirits rule the land and mighty mammoths shake the earth. In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter, D'Leh (Steven Strait), has found his heart's passion - the beautiful Evolet (Camilla Belle). When a band of mysterious warlords raid his village and kidnap Evolet, D'Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-tooth tigers and prehistoric predators and, at their heroic journey's end, they uncover a Lost Civilization. Their ultimate fate lies in an empire beyond imagination, where great pyramids reach into the skies. Here they will take their stand against a powerful god who has brutally enslaved their people.
Amazon.com:
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 neighbor 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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- Beautiful movie
Considering the poor reviews this movie received,I can only hypothesize that for these people,this movie came too many years after their childish innocence has dimmed.This movie is a beautiful piece of work. Instead of the usualscenario of portraying early man as half wild survivors dominated by fear and superstition, it is an intuitivelyrich and artful look at the qualities that define our humanness... Without love, trust and character we have nothing. This beautifully acted, beautifully ... Read More
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- Leaves a lot to be desired
The beginning of the movie was AWESOME. I was all psyched, and the opening showed a lot of promise. I was eager to see what the movie would be about... and I was horribly disappointed.
The historical inaccuracies made me weep. I thought it couldn't get any worse. But the plot holes were even worse. There was no effort made to explain where the 'god' came from, what kind of powers he had (how he got all these people to obey him) or the background for this weird civilization. In the end, ... Read More
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- Fun Thrilling Movie
I enjoyed this movie, it falls into my pretty darn good catagory, if I will watch it again I think it is pretty good, this is a movie I will watch again and again. great story line.
Rating: - 10,000 BC
good storyline with lesser known actors and actresses. movie goes by pretty quickly when watching
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- Utter rubbish
I've heard bad things about this since it first came out. I happened to catch it randomly last night and was interested in seeing what it was like.
It starts off ok, but once the story kicks in, it just goes from mess to mess. Firstly, there's no historical accuracy in any of it, not that it's TRYING to be historically accurate, but it would have been good to see them do something a little more realistic. There's no structure to the landscape or the people that live in it. The characters walk ... Read More
- Beautiful movieConsidering the poor reviews this movie received,I can only hypothesize that for these people,this movie came too many years after their childish innocence has dimmed.This movie is a beautiful piece of work. Instead of the usualscenario of portraying early man as half wild survivors dominated by fear and superstition, it is an intuitivelyrich and artful look at the qualities that define our humanness... Without love, trust and character we have nothing. This beautifully acted, beautifully ... Read More
- Leaves a lot to be desiredThe beginning of the movie was AWESOME. I was all psyched, and the opening showed a lot of promise. I was eager to see what the movie would be about... and I was horribly disappointed.
The historical inaccuracies made me weep. I thought it couldn't get any worse. But the plot holes were even worse. There was no effort made to explain where the 'god' came from, what kind of powers he had (how he got all these people to obey him) or the background for this weird civilization. In the end, ... Read More
- Fun Thrilling MovieI enjoyed this movie, it falls into my pretty darn good catagory, if I will watch it again I think it is pretty good, this is a movie I will watch again and again. great story line.
- 10,000 BCgood storyline with lesser known actors and actresses. movie goes by pretty quickly when watching
- Utter rubbishI've heard bad things about this since it first came out. I happened to catch it randomly last night and was interested in seeing what it was like.
It starts off ok, but once the story kicks in, it just goes from mess to mess. Firstly, there's no historical accuracy in any of it, not that it's TRYING to be historically accurate, but it would have been good to see them do something a little more realistic. There's no structure to the landscape or the people that live in it. The characters walk ... Read More
