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10,000 B.C. [Blu-ray]

The filmmaker who launched a UFO invasion in Independence Day and unleashed the forces of global warming in The Day After Tomorrow now unveils a new day of adventure, a time when mammoths shake the earth and mystical spirits shape human fates. Roland Emmerich directs 10,000 BC, the eye-filling tale of the first hero. That hero is young hunter D?Leh (Steven Strait), set out on a bold trek to rescue his kidnapped beloved (Camilla Belle) and fulfill his prophetic destiny. He?ll face an awesome saber-toothed tiger. Cross uncharted realms. Form an army. And uncover an advanced but corrupt Lost Civilization. There, he will lead a fight for liberation ? and become the champion of the time when legend began.

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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10,000 B.C. [Blu-ray] Reviews

Oops, I just gave away the movie. Alley Oop teams up with Shaka Zulu to become Moses and free their peoples from Pharaoh Palpatine's enslavement. Doesn't matter; in fact, you oughtta thank me. Makes as much sense as furry mammoths in the Sahara desert.

It doesn't get any better as you keep watching. I really should have. I kept thinking to myself in the first 5-10 minutes, I should just turn this off. Save yourself the time and watch something else.

Oh, there's a few mammoths that stampede, yeah. But my biggest problem with this pile of garbage is the marketing. Don't be suckered. The story could've been set any time any place - and has been, and has been told far, far better in many other movies. And again on the back of the case they show this creature. It's this few minutes that give it the one star, otherwise I'd have complained about not having a zero star option. And that's probably all the script itself said, considering the quality of acting and dialogue. When you look at the packaging, you see a guy going up against a monstrous saber-tooth tiger.

10,000BC. You think, wow, this must be man battling the hellish monsters of old. But when you compare that to the similar elements in the climax battle of Return of the King, it's an absolutely pitiful scene.

Let this garbage rot then maybe the producers will get the message and give us something decent to watch next time out. If the movie could have developed along similar lines it could really have been a great movie. With today's CGI that could've been so cool.

The marketing is a con. Instead, the tiger is in the movie for about 60 seconds - there's no battle, the thing doesn't even bloody its claws.

Guy loses girl; guy fights to get girl back; guy gets girl. The only saving grace is the giant bird scene.

It almost looks like a low budget film. It could have been so much better with a better producer. Whats up with that. I almost fell asleep. And whats with the cast having their eyebrows "done". I thought it was called 10,000 BC. This movie was terrible im so glad I did not buy it but rather watched it through someone else. It didnt do much with the special effects.

Definitely one of the worst movies of 2008. It lacks a story.

It is way worse than a dumbed down Apocalypta. That is an exageration.

Crtitics described this as a dumbed down Apocalypta. What it does have is a crew of very good special effects artists.

Other than that this is non-stop violence. It is absolutely terrible.

This type of movie would mostly be appealing to a red-neck crowd, because all they care about is violence, and could care less if there was a story.