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10,000 B.C.

2008, Adventure/Action, 1h 49m

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With attention strictly paid to style instead of substance, or historical accuracy, 10,000 B.C. is a visually impressive but narratively flimsy epic. Read critic reviews

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Mammoth hunter D'Leh (Steven Strait) has long been in love with a beautiful, blue-eyed tribeswoman named Evolet (Camilla Belle). After horseback-riding raiders kidnap most of his D'Leh's fellow tribesmen as well as Evolet, he sets out on a dangerous trek to rescue her from her captors.

Rating: PG-13 (Violence|Sequences of Intense Action)

Genre: Adventure, Action, Drama

Original Language: English

Director: Roland Emmerich

Producer: Michael Wimer , Roland Emmerich , Mark Gordon

Writer: Roland Emmerich , Harald Kloser

Release Date (Theaters): Mar 7, 2008  wide

Release Date (Streaming): Jun 22, 2013

Box Office (Gross USA): $94.8M

Runtime: 1h 49m

Distributor: Warner Bros.

Production Co: Moonlighting Films, Legendary Pictures, Namibia Film Commission, Centropolis Entertainment, Warner Bros.

Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS

Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

Cast & Crew

Steven Strait

Camilla Belle

Cliff Curtis

Joel Virgel

Afif Ben Badra

Nathanael Baring

Mona Hammond

Reece Ritchie

Omar Sharif

Kristian Beazley

D'Leh's Father

Junior Oliphant

Louise Tu'u

Baku's Mother

Roland Emmerich

Screenwriter

Harald Kloser

Michael Wimer

Mark Gordon

Executive Producer

Sarah Bradshaw

Tom Karnowski

Thomas Tull

William Fay

Original Music

Thomas Wander

Alexander Berner

Film Editing

Jean-Vincent Puzos

Production Design

Ueli Steiger

Cinematographer

Odile Dicks-Mireaux

Costume Design

Renée April

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"Epic" in so much as Emmerich films always are, but that's not to be confused with "good". If you want to learn something true, or feel an emotion, look elsewhere. But if poking a mammoth with a stick is more your thing, you could probably handle 10,000 B.C.

This is such a disaster, It's so bad to the point that it wasn't even funny to watch. This would be featured in MST3K if it was still around.

[img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon13.gif[/img] 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.

If you're a 11 year old boy, you will probably love this movie. It has violence, special effects and a love intrest. That's all it takes to entertain 11 year old boys. However, if you are 13+ years old and have a brain, you'll probably end up hating it. The acting is really bad, the plot doesn't make sense, and it steals scenes from better movies like ALL THE TIME. Let me start of by saying, if you've seen Apocalypto, you've seen 10,000 B.C. Ancient man tries to save loved one from civilization who captured loved one. Take away the bloody violence, the Mayans and "Apocalypto"s shear emotion and meaningfulness and throw in Mammoths, violence and cave men and you've got 10,000 B.C. The whole film seems to be incredibly unoriginal. Guy is a loser. Guy becomes hero. Guy falls in love with girl. Girl gets captured. I bet you if I chose a random movie on Netflix, it would have the exact same plot. What's worse is, the plot isn't even fully explained, particularly in the kidnapping scene. Who are these kidnappers? Where do they come from? Also, why does it take like 2 days for the protagonists to make it from the snowy mountains to the jungle to the desert? Were they traveling in hyper speed? Oh wait, I forgot. This movie is not made for thinking. The character development in this movie is some of the worst I've seen in a VERY long time. The characters have no personality at the beginning of the film, and they have none at the end. The relationship between D'Leh and Evolet is very underdeveloped. Not only do they barely know each other yet they fall in love in like two seconds. On top of that, we get no back story on any character in the movie, making me not care about any of them. The acting in the film was awful as well. Steven Strait overacts and underacts, performing a down right awful performance comparable to Barry Pepper's performance in "Battlefield: Earth". Ben Badra was pretty bad too, downright awful, though I don't blame him considering most of his dialogue consists of grunts and random yells. The dialogue in this movie is awful. It sounds like it was written by an 8 year old with quotes like "Do not eat me when I set you free". It's comparable to any of the quotes in "Battlefield: Earth" or "Troll 2" (2 Battlefield Earth refrences. I thought we'd have more.) Imagine an entire script like the line you just read, and you've got this films dialogue. 10,000 B.C is watching a kid playing LEGOs with a large and expensive budget. It's an ugly, witless, bland film filled with cliches that blantantly rips off scenes from other films. (The spear throw= "The Scorpion King", e.t.c)If you still really want to see this movie, go watch "Apocalypto" while watching "Battlefield: Earth" while shaking your head.

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In the prehistoric past, D'Leh is a mammoth hunter who bonds with the beautiful Evolet. When warriors on horseback capture Evolet and the tribesmen, D'Leh must embark on an odyssey to save h... Read all In the prehistoric past, D'Leh is a mammoth hunter who bonds with the beautiful Evolet. When warriors on horseback capture Evolet and the tribesmen, D'Leh must embark on an odyssey to save his true love. In the prehistoric past, D'Leh is a mammoth hunter who bonds with the beautiful Evolet. When warriors on horseback capture Evolet and the tribesmen, D'Leh must embark on an odyssey to save his true love.

• Roland Emmerich
• Harald Kloser
• Camilla Belle
• Steven Strait
• 637 User reviews
• 255 Critic reviews
• 34 Metascore

• Tic'Tic

• (as Ben Badra)

• Ka'Ren
• (as Mo Zainal)

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• Trivia (at around 1h 10 mins) The film includes a glimpse of a map showing Atlantis off the coast of Spain. It's a reference to Plato's theory that the construction techniques used in Egypt were imported from the ancient lost civilization of Atlantis.
• Goofs Chili peppers and corn are from the Americas. They weren't grown in the "Old World" until after 1500.

Tic'Tic : A good man draws a circle around himself and cares for those within. His woman, his children.

Tic'Tic : Other men draw a larger circle and bring within their brothers and sisters.

Tic'Tic : But some men have a great destiny. They must draw around themselves a circle that includes many, many more.

Tic'Tic : Your father was one of those men. You must decide for yourself whether you are, as well.

• Connections Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Horton Hears a Who!/Never Back Down/10,000 B.C./Funny Games/Paranoid Park/Conspiracy (2008)

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• March 7, 2008 (United States)
• United States
• South Africa
• Warner Bros (France)
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• 10.000 Năm Trước Công Nguyên
• Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand
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• Legendary Entertainment
• Centropolis Entertainment
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• $105,000,000 (estimated)
• $94,784,201
• $35,867,488
• Mar 9, 2008
• $269,784,201

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• Runtime 1 hour 49 minutes
• Dolby Digital

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• Steven Strait as D'Leh; Camilla Belle as Evolet; Cliff Curtis as Tic'Tic; Nathanael Baring as Baku

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Movie Review

Let’s face it: We whine a lot.

We whine when our alarm clocks fritz out. We whine when we have dental appointments. We whine when our favorite coffee stand runs out of hazelnut espresso. What we don’t whine about is how poorly the mammoth hunts have been going lately.

In truth, D’Leh doesn’t whine about that either—even though the woolly mammoths aren’t coming around as much anymore. That’s bad news, because D’Leh and his people, the Yagahl, rely on these beasts for pretty much everything. They eat ’em. They wear their hides. They build huts out of their bones. They make mammoth-related jewelry. One might say the Yagahl are in a mammoth rut.

D’Leh has other problems, too. For one thing, his pappy deserted the tribe several years before—a shameful no-no in the Yagahl’s tight little community. For another, he’s quite fond of a pretty, adopted interloper named Evolet. But Evolet, with her blue eyes, straight teeth and nice mop of dreadlocks, is the Yagahl’s “it” girl who’s likely to be the main squeeze for the tribe’s best mammoth hunter. And that, everyone assumes, won’t be D’Leh.

Things seem to take a fortunate, perhaps preordained, turn when a huge mammoth stumbles into D’Leh’s spear and promptly dies, giving D’Leh newfound status as a burly, he-man hunter and the right to “take” the girl of his choosing. But D’Leh is too honest to let an accident propel him to so much tribal power. With a heavy heart (and a little encouragement) he rejects all his mammoth-hunting rights and resigns himself to continuing Yagahl obscurity—much to Evolet’s dismay.

That very evening, “four-legged demons” (riders on horseback) raid the Yagahl’s encampment, kidnapping Evolet and several other unfortunate souls. D’Leh watches as his one true love—along with several of his friends—are carted off into the snowy wilds. If ever there was a time to whine, it’d be now, right?

D’Leh decides instead to pursue them. And neither cold nor heat nor saber-toothed tigers nor man-eating ostriches nor a lack of the invention of hazelnut espresso will stop him from completing his all-important quest.

Positive Elements

D’Leh may be a bit of a fifth wheel in the Yagahl, but he treats his tribemates with respect, and Evolet with care and gentleness. He adheres unwaveringly to the moral ethos of the tribe: When Evolet suggests the two of them run off together, D’Leh smacks down the idea. “And abandon my people, like my father?” he says. And, as we’ve already discussed, he refuses to let an accident of fate give him tribal perks. Granted, he gets a little prodding from Tic’Tic, a wise elder and friend, who tells him, “It’s not the way to claim the white spear with a lie.”

But D’Leh’s character is only truly revealed when Yagahl life is turned upside down. During the course of his epic trek to save Evolet, he a) rescues the girl from the embrace of one of her lecherous captors; b) leads a pack of horrific, man-eating birds away from Evolet and other captives; c) drags a wounded cohort through a burning, waterless desert on a makeshift stretcher; d) saves a saber-toothed tiger from a watery death; and, of course, e) becomes an inspiring leader of men. He’s the kind of honest, forthright guy who might make a pretty good president if a) he showered more and b) presidential duties involved dealing with man-eating birds and saber-toothed tigers. (And some would say that they do.)

But really, all the Yagahl adhere to the same general code of honor. As D’Leh points out, the Yagahl are able to take down the mightiest of animals (that’d be the mammoth) because they “hunt together as one.” And, indeed, all of D’Leh’s compatriots are all about teamwork. [ Spoiler Warning ] One of D’Leh’s onetime rivals makes the ultimate sacrifice at the end of the film. The Yagahl’s resident shamanist leader (referenced as “Old Mother”) makes a similar sacrifice.

Spiritual Elements

Two things are worth commenting on at the outset: First, if one takes the film’s title literally, 10,000 BC takes place a good 10,000 years before, well, Christ, and several thousand years before even Abraham was walking around. So the film doesn’t deal much with Judeo-Christian themes. Second, though the film takes place in prehistoric times, complete with prehistoric animals, the subject of evolution is not dealt with.

That said, spiritualism runs amok.

“There are legends and prophesies along with all the visceral elements,” says Cliff Curtis, who plays Tic’Tic. “There are predatory terror birds and saber-toothed tigers, and, of course, the mammoths, but the story also has a spiritual undertone to it, and I think that is the glue that holds it together.”

The Yagahl appear to adhere to some form of ancestor worship, and there are several allusions to “fathers” leading them. The fathers also zap Old Mother with visions of the future. When D’Leh and Evolet were just children, she prophesied that Evolet and her beau (who winds up being, of course, D’Leh) would lead the Yagahl to a new life “where the Yagahl will know hunger no more” and foresaw the raid of the “four-legged demons.”

D’Leh turns out to be a player in other prophecies too. One tribe he encounters believes that a man who talks to a “speartooth” will lead them in war against their oppressors. Fortunately for D’Leh, he just happened to save a saber-toothed tiger the night before he stumbles across the tribe. And it just so happens that the same tiger wanders into camp just as the tribe is about to poke D’Leh full of spear holes. The tribe gives the tiger a wide berth, but D’Leh—already on the ground—says, “You do remember me, don’t you?”

Evolet’s kidnappers and the tribe’s oppressors are one and the same—an advanced, pyramid-building race which has its own prophecy. These people believe their civilization will crumble if someone comes to town bearing the mark of a certain constellation of stars. As it happens, Evolet was whipped with a cat-o’-nine-tails sort of thing on the way to the city, and the scars on her hands match the pattern of the constellation.

These pyramid-builders—really not nice people at all—worship a living “god,” actually a tall, very old mortal whose face is always shielded from his people by films of silk and such. We’re told that, originally, there were three “gods,” and he’s the only one who’s left. An entire priesthood has been built around this untouchable, unseeable fellow, and whatever this “god” says, goes. When he feels as though his slaves are slacking off in their pyramid building, he orders one of them to be sacrificed—and one is immediately tossed off a pyramid ledge. He’s regarded with fearful awe, and D’Leh is told to not expect help from his slaves because, “Men cannot bring down gods.”

[ Spoiler Warning ] Old Mother psychically goes on the quest with D’Leh. And she apparently gives her last breath of life to Evolet, when the younger woman is fatally struck by an arrow. D’Leh, the man of action that he is, winds up killing the city’s ruler with a spear. “He is not a god!” he shouts, and the revolution commences.

Also, Evolet is sometimes called a “witch,” though she does not cast any spells.

Sexual Content

Evolet is clearly an object of desire among her captors. One makes moves on her as if he’d like to rape her. (D’Leh rescues her.) The slave-trading leader eventually buys her “freedom,” he tells her, though that freedom clearly amounts to trading a life hauling stones for a life as his sex kitten. That said, their “relationship” never comes close to being consummated.

An exaggerated imitation smooch performed by a captive tribesman is pretty much as far as things go when it comes to talking about D’Leh and Evolet’s love life. As for “native” dress codes, everyone’s relatively well-covered. Some men walk around bare-chested and women sometimes saunter about bare-shouldered.

Violent Content

There is carnage and peril aplenty in 10,000 BC From the early-movie mammoth hunt to the climactic war in the desert, action takes center stage.

Spears are the weapons of mass destruction here, with warriors using them to dispatch mammoths, men and man-eating birds with equal aplomb. We see one 10-foot tall bird get stabbed in the mouth. We see an impaled mammoth. One or two men are skewered, and we see the spear go in one side and out the other.

But there were evidently other ways than that to die in 10,000 BC, and none were particularly pleasant. Arrows were one. And audiences see warriors smack their opponents with hammers. Huge, ostrich-like creatures kill and eat men, mealtime often hidden by a convenient veil of grass. Mammoths fling their trunks and stomp their feet with abandon, occasionally smiting or squishing folks who get in their way. For his part, D’Leh nearly gets smothered by a collapsed mammoth, which would seem to me to be a particularly ignoble and smelly way to die. Several Yagahl are dragged through the tundra by a mammoth, and they’re sometimes thrown clear and tumble into rocks. People are hurled off pyramids. One guard has his neck broken.

A man falls crotch-first onto a tree branch. D’Leh cauterizes a compatriot’s wound by way of a burning branch. Slaves are regularly smacked around, most often by nasty whips. Evolet is scarred when the slave driver whips her hands mercilessly. (We rarely see the blows fall.) One captive is nearly strangled to death by one of his overlords. The god-king threatens to literally pull another slave apart.

Of note: For all the wanton death and violence, there is remarkably little literal bloodshed. Characters are stabbed and impaled with some regularity, and the body count is high enough to make Rambo wish he’d lived 12,000 years earlier. But the gore-factor is relatively light.

Crude or Profane Language

None. The English language had not, apparently, evolved enough by 10,000 BC to include f-words, s-words or other bits of offensive banter. And yes, almost everybody seems to have spoken English back then.

Drug and Alcohol Content

Cigarettes and whiskey were still millennia in the offing, too. Everyone, including the vision-prone Old Mother, is stone-cold sober throughout.

Other Negative Elements

When a warrior crawls through a herd of mammoths, we hear much noise emanating from the huge creatures—some of which may or may not be the sounds your average 13-year-old would recognize as flatulence. D’Leh and Tic’Tic take food from an apparently deserted village—only the village turns out not to be so deserted.

10,000 BC is, if I may say so, ahead of its time when it comes to morality. There are problems. Violence is ubiquitous. And the film emphasizes pre-Abrahamic spirituality. But while the Yagahl may not credit their sense of morality to the Christian God, they do adhere to forms of what we now know to be godly morality with clarity and unwavering vigor. And it’s that sense of morality—honor, loyalty, teamwork—that forms the bedrock of their hardscrabble society.

Let’s not make too much of this, though. 10,000 BC is, at its heart, an action-adventure popcorn flick about, um, people who hadn’t invented popcorn yet. It might be good for a diversion but it’ll never do as fodder for long, espresso-house discussions. That said, it does suggest that civilization is only possible through a shared sense of ethical, moral behavior. And in our whiny, postmodern society, circa 2,000 A.D., that’s not a bad lesson to learn.

Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. He’s written for a number of other publications, too, including Time, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. The author of several books, Paul loves to find spirituality in unexpected places, including popular entertainment, and he loves all things superhero. His vices include James Bond films, Mountain Dew and terrible B-grade movies. He’s married, has two children and a neurotic dog, runs marathons on occasion and hopes to someday own his own tuxedo. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @AsayPaul.

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10,000 bc review.

Incredible vistas populated with a combination of ancient temples, pyramids, woolly mammoths and a cast of (CGI) thousands.

While there's an attempt to make this a personal story, it's really about what we thought it would be: Incredible vistas populated with a combination of ancient temples, pyramids, woolly mammoths and a cast of (CGI) thousands.

Two weeks ago I posted my thoughts about 10,000 B.C. based on what I'd seen so far and at the panel for the film at WonderCon, and one of the words that came to mind regarding what director Roland Emmerich had in mind for this film was "spectacle."

Oh, and it tries oh so very hard to live up to that word.

The best I can say about 10,000 BC is that it wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be.

The film opens with our hero as a young boy in a village that depends upon the annual hunt for woolly mammoths for food. It seems that every year there are fewer and fewer and that the way of life of the small village is coming to an end. A young girl whose village was pillaged is brought to this one as the sole survivor. Her defining characteristic is that she has amazing blue eyes.

And old woman who functions as the shaman of these people predicts that their time of hunting mammoths is close to an end and the boy who ends up taking the girl as a mate when they're older will be the catalyst for moving from one era to the next. For some reason, the boy's father decides that he must head out and leave the village in order to insure its survival before the last mammoth is hunted. What he hopes to accomplish exactly, is not clear.

He leaves his comrade in hunting who seems to be the #2 head honcho in charge of the village and his son. The boy is teased by others who think that his father was a coward for leaving. After being alienated from the group, there is a brief bonding moment between him and the girl where he picks out what I assume to be the North Star and tells her just as that star never moves neither will he ever stop loving her (or something to that effect).

Cut to them at about 20 years old: She's far and away the babe of the village, if not of the entire planet, and while he's all buff and everything, he seems to be kind of a schmoe: A wanna-be big hunter, but not really up to par. Anyway, he gets credit for bringing down a big woolly mammoth and gets the big fancy white spear. He wasn't quite honest about it and gives it back to his dad's pal, although it was difficult for him because winning the spear meant he would also win the babe.

Shortly thereafter the predicted bad guys show up and kidnaps most of the town for whatever nefarious purposes, and they take her with them. The leader of these guys is quite taken by her (ok, her name is Evolet, played by Camilla Belle ).

The young man (named D'Leh and played by Steven Strait ) resolves to save her. So he, his father's friend and another young guy left behind set out to track down the bad guys and rescue everyone.

Now, I've already said this wasn't as bad as I thought, but on the other hand I really didn't care much about even the two main characters. Emmerich didn't do much of a job (although it was obvious he tried) to make us feel all that connected to these two and they felt kind of like a couple of animated mannequins to me. To give the movie due credit towards the end they did feel a bit more fleshed out but overall I was just kind of bored by the whole thing.

One thing I found kind of funny were a couple of very long shot sweeping, circling scenes of vistas that looked like they were taken directly from the Lord of the Rings movie making manual. Beyond that, the CGI mammoths looked ok, but that gigantic sabre-toothed tiger looked quite fake to me.

And yes, in one scene they were attacked by giant birds.

I've heard them referred to as "giant chickens" but to me they look more like giant ostriches. I really would have preferred some lizardy thing, but hey, that's just me.

This small group ends up meeting with another and the word goes out that they're going to war with the folks in the big pyramid city. In one scene that gave me a chuckle, this big fearsome warrior who leads the toughest gang of warriors in the area goes up to D'Leh and says to the translator:

"He looks young."

To which D'Leh replies:

"I'm older than I look."

So while the fierce warrior was mighty, he must also have been easily convinced since that was good enough for him.

When they finally get to the giant city, I was distracted by the fact that I knew I was watching one long shot after another of nothing but total CGI. It didn't look awful, mind you, but I kind of checked out a bit during those scenes.

Another thing that stood out was that I don't believe I've seen a movie with so much violence and mayhem including people thrown off buildings to drop 20 stories to their deaths, big mallets used as deadly weapons, knives, spears and other sharp pointy things as implements of death... all pretty much used without a drop of blood to be seen.

Ah, the joys of a PG-13 movie.

And while I won't give away the ending, just as I was about to give 10,000 BC the slightest amount of respect due to the way the movie seemed to be ending, it vanished in a puff of smoke in such a manner as to make me laugh out loud in the theater.

Was it awful? No. Was it entertaining? Mildly. You may even like it, but I thought it was pretty weak.

10,000 B.C. Review

Emmerich's latest epic offers a candy-coated version of apocalypto..

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Me Want Good Caveman Movie

Not this 10,000 b.c. crap..

The caveman is a beloved archetype for a reason. Beetle-browed and quizzical, cognitively challenged but game for anything, he’s a stand-in for us moderns as we try to puzzle out the mystery of our humanity. The classic caveman—a fur-clad, club-wielding, wheel-inventing regular guy—is a condensation of assumptions, speculations, and fantasies about our ancestral past. (That he never really existed as such was the premise for those brilliant Geico ads and the short-lived ABC series they inspired.) But caveman cinema, even at its goofiest, can be a thought-provoking genre. Depictions of early humans have the potential to ask the big questions: Where does language come from? What should our relationship be to nature, to technology, to other humans? A good caveman movie also tackles more immediate concerns: What me do when fire go out? How me escape from stampeding woolly mammoth?

10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros.), Roland Emmerich’s new prehistoric adventure, disappoints not because it’s a bad caveman movie, but because it isn’t one at all. Rather than taking the trouble to imagine what early civilization might have been like—its culture, its language, its warfare, its family life—the movie simply transposes a banal Hollywood epic into Paleolithic times. Or maybe Mesolithic. Emmerich, who’s already done alien invasion ( Independence Day ) and environmental armageddon ( The Day After Tomorrow ), excels at staging grand-scale chaos, but he’s no stickler for detail. So what if the construction of the pyramids didn’t really overlap with the existence of the woolly mammoth? Can you honestly say you don’t want to see a herd of crazed mammoths stampeding down the ramps of a pyramid in progress?

We begin, as Omar Sharif informs us in a mystical voice-over, at the dawn of mankind in the small mountain settlement of a tribe called the Yagahl. After his father mysteriously abandons the clan, a young hunter, D’Leh (Steven Strait), falls in love with a blue-eyed cavegirl named Evolet (Camilla Belle, looking fresh from a WB teen drama). When a group of Yagahl tribesmen, including Evolet, is kidnapped by marauding slave traders, D’Leh conscripts a band of hunters, including his adoptive father, Tic’Tic (Cliff Curtis), to go in search of them. On their way, these dreadlocked warriors will encounter the full roster of prehistoric threats: rival tribesmen, saber-toothed tigers, and a killer reptilian emu that chomps its way through entire forests of bamboo. By the time they arrive at the huge, quasi-Egyptian construction site, D’Leh has become the leader of an army of oppressed tribes who scheme to overthrow the enslavers and their veiled, godlike pharaoh. Meanwhile, back at the Yagahl encampment, an ancient matriarchal figure known as Old Mother (Mona Hammond) relays the faraway events to the remaining tribesmen via a kind of psychic closed-circuit TV.

I don’t begrudge this plot its stupidity or lack of verisimilitude; some of my best friends are stupid and far-fetched. What makes the movie a drag is the pedestrian joylessness with which it plods through its hypercompressed evolutionary timeline. The invention of agriculture? Oh, here’s a bag of seeds to take home from your journey. The first encounter with foreign languages? Hey, luckily there’s a guy who can translate them all for you. One of the movie’s biggest disappointments is its failure to have fun with language. All the Yagahls communicate in grammatically perfect, vaguely accented English. Even their mellifluous names (D’Leh? Evolet?) could easily appear on the roster of a hippie preschool. (Need I invoke the caveman names from movies of yore: Goov ? Creb ? Lar ? Gaw ?) Anthony Burgess created an entire proto-language for Quest for Fire ; the best Emmerich and his co-writer, Harald Kloser, can do is to envision a time before the invention of contractions. (“Do not eat me when I set you free.”)

I’m not asking for the anthropological earnestness of the great early-’80s caveman classics ( Quest for Fire , Iceman , The Clan of the Cave Bear ) or the philosophical reach of the first part of 2001: A Space Odyssey , in which technology, war, and space travel are all invented with the toss of a single bone. But at least give us the lusty fun of Caveman (1981), in which Ringo Starr and Dennis Quaid play two bumbling Paleolithic pals living in the year “1 zillion B.C.” 10,000 B.C. profits from the latest in Homo sapiens technology—the CGI predators are ably rendered and the digitized battle scenes spectacular (even if they do crib from Apocalypto and The Two Towers ). But in terms of character development, wit, and simple curiosity, it’s dumber than a Neanderthal.

10,000 BC Movie Review

Once upon a time Roland Emmerich made greasy popcorn entertainment that was buoyant and exciting ("Stargate," "Independence Day"). Ever since the epic failure of 1998's "Godzilla," Emmerich has been desperately trying to rekindle his old blockbuster flame, but the results have been lackluster at best ("The Day After Tomorrow"). "10,000 B.C." is a further step backward for the event movie prince, sending the audience to the mystical world of cavemen, yet offering little in the way of substance beyond the abundant special effects.

Strait ) finds his fate intertwined with Evolet (Camilla Belle), an orphan embraced by the elders who hope she will fulfill a great prophecy. When invaders attack D'Leh and his clan, they snatch Evolet and imprison her as a slave, starting a quest for D'Leh and a small pack of warriors traveling across treacherous terrain to get her back. During their dangerous journey, D'Leh befriends other tribes who want similar revenge on their oppressors, finding the relentless warrior fulfilling his own prophecy as a leader brought to the world to unite good and topple evil.

That's right, two prophecies. That's how hollow this screenplay is: they needed two ways to figure out how to take tedious characters and lend them a false sense of otherworldly intent.

"10,000 B.C." is not a cerebral journey of anthropological investigation; it's more a Saturday matinee thrill ride using prehistoric iconography to molest audience-pleasing explosions of action and chest-thumping drama. On the page, I'm sure the project looked amazing with grand displays of adventure and numerous openings for eye-popping visual effects; however, Emmerich's execution of the whole shebang is sleepy, and the screenwriting downright deplorable.

Stealing cues from "Apocalypto," "Braveheart," and his own "Stargate" (not to mention numerous other films), Emmerich has assembled a funky bouillabaisse of derivative material glued together by the CG sequences, which imagine a land populated with grazing mammoths, fierce saber-tooth tigers, and massive ostrich-like creatures that allow Emmerich a chance to rip-off the Velociraptor attack from "Jurassic Park." Admittedly, "B.C." is a gorgeous widescreen production, with sweeping vistas and towering scale. Emmerich knows how to go big, but his touch with human interaction is laughable, and "B.C." is his most emotionally distanced movie yet.

Thrust into this world by Omar Sharif's perplexing narration, "B.C." never gets off the ground. Emmerich is more enamored with selling the characters as action figures than human beings, breaking the critical bonds between them that supposedly motivate the entire movie. The worst offense is found between D'Leh and Evolet, who are offered to the screen as the destined, tragic lovers of the piece. The script doesn't give them much time to intertwine, and it's not long before they're separated, leaving D'Leh to do his Conan-lite routine and for Evolet to commence her…whatever she actually does in this movie. I'm not sure. I detected a lot of painful-color-contact blank stares and falling. Perhaps the "natural lady" caveman wig on Belle was too cumbersome. There's really no sense of community in the picture, just a filmmaker checking off disposable action beats from his creased, yellowed "to do" list as the production plods along aimlessly.

Without any tangible interest in the characters, "B.C." is reduced to a highlight reel of flavorless set-pieces. Trust me, if you've seen one mammoth stampede, you've seen them all. Emmerich has never been one to rely on the wizardry of nuance, but I was stunned to feel numb to nearly everything "B.C." offered, as if my mind immediately detected a filmmaker looking to brazenly cash in on his past successes. I miss the fun-loving Roland Emmerich, who once made stupid undeniably rousing. These days, he's just riding gimmicks and special effects and "10,000 B.C." is a culmination of every lazy impulse he's been harboring for years.

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Movie Review: 10,000 B.C.

Who doesn’tlike historical epics? Costume dramas that give you an up-close-and-personallook at some musty but meaningful period when life was tough, but big thingswere happening?

Well, givedirector Roland Emmerich credit for attempting a new record in rewinding theclock. He’s dared to take us back to the last ice age, to follow the story of asmall band of our fur-fitted forebears as they mix it up with a non-stop paradeof bad guys. Indeed, the world these heroes occupy seems so riddled withmalevolence, you can understand the incentive somebody might have to flood theplace, and wash away the general pestilence.

“ 10,000 BC ” is one of those ever-popular,journey-to-manhood flicks. In this case an even-tempered stud named D’leh(Steven Strait) - the only guy in town with clean hair - tries to overcome abad rap: his long-gone Dad is accused of cowardice. That’s got to make it toughduring recess, but D’leh shows the schoolyard bullies that he’s got what ittakes by single-handedly bagging a wooly mammoth .This shaggy Pliocene protein seems to be the principal menu item for D’leh’stribe - which is odd, given that they live above the snow line in a range ofmountains that’s more forbidding than the Old Testament. What are mammoth herdsdoing up there, anyway? Even goats would have a tough time finding enough toeat.

Nevermind. D’lehbrings home the proboscidean bacon, and everything is looking good - or atleast as good as things can look in a society where you probably die at ayounger age than your pets - until some prophesied, four-legged demons, aeuphemism for hooligans on horseback, ride into town, ransack the hovels (isthere a reason to bother?), and then ride back out with our hero’s blue-eyedgirlfriend in tow. This ticks D’leh off, and shifts the movie into high gear.

Whatfollows is an epic quest for revenge, and the retrieval of Ms Blue-Eyes - sortof like Virgil’s Aeneid, but without the poetry. D’leh and his buddies passfrom mountains to jungles to sandy deserts as easily as you go fromTomorrowland to Frontierland by turning a Disneylandcorner . They pick up a few allies, confront a few nasty critters(saber-toothed tigers and - get this - carnivorous ostriches), and keepeveryone facing the screen wondering what misery will engulf these guys next.

Anachronismsare thicker than a hippo’s neck here, but it’s all good (if improbable) funthat eventually brings our heroes to the nexus of evil - a large-scaleconstruction project on the relentlessly sandy banks of some river. Well, notreally “some” river, because what the local residents are building - a coupleof giant pyramids, a row of smaller ones, a big ceremonial barque, and asphinx - I mean, do I have to spell it out for you?

Archaeologistswith both expertise and tenure tell us that the great pyramids of Giza wereconstructed around 2,500 BC. However, a few marginal authors and late-nightradio pundits claim they go back about 12,000 years. The chances that this istrue are about the same as the odds that a wormhole will open up in yourbedroom tonight, and whisk you off to the Large Magellanic Cloud for breakfastwith aliens. But in “10,000 BC,” you’ll be able to see this hypothesis writlarge on the special effects canvas. This sequence alone is so oddly imposing,it’s worth the price of admission.

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Oh, andthere’s something else to be gleaned from watching this ice-age epic. For thosewho still wonder how ancient peoples could pile up a million squared-off rocksto make Giza’s famous pointy architecture, Emmerich supplies the answer:domesticated wooly mammoths! That’s right; these tusky terrors may be onlysandwich fixings for D’leh, but whoever is building these pyramids has figuredout how to use them to cut the overhead on public works projects. Defanged andtamed, they slog up and down steep ramps, hauling blocks of limestone behind. One assumes that the ramps would soon be adequately, if unappealingly, greased.

Well, OK.It’s not really the history of the world, but 10,000 B C has eye candyand action. And now, when someone asks “did extraterrestrialsbuild the pyramids?” I can disabuse them of that nutty idea: “Don’t besilly. They were built by a bunch of non-union, wooly mammoths.” Works for me.

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10,000 BC Ending, Explained: What Happened to the The Almighty?

German director Roland Emmerich has been called a “master of disaster” after disaster movies like ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ and ‘The Patriot.’ His oddball 2008 epic timepiece ‘10,000 BC’ masters its disastrous recipe, topped with a story of insurgency, allure of the ancient times, CGI pyramids, and woolly mammoths. The narrative catches a whiff of the prehistoric past while mixing up myth, fancy, and the abduction-of-woman trope ever-present in the timeless epics. It probes into the lives of the Yagahl tribe and their grand tale of survival in the face of a hostile planet. The finale brings us to a cathartic closure, complete with a happy twist. However, you must be wondering to know what goes down in the final moments. In that case, let us refresh our memory. SPOILERS AHEAD.

10,000 BC Plot Synopsis

The narrative opens in the hostile Ural Mountains around 10,000 BC, and the hard-working Yagahl tribe needs a new owner for the White Spear. As the tribe holds the hunting of Mannaks (or woolly mammoths) in high esteem, the future leader must alone hunt down a mammoth before he can claim the White Spear. After the destruction of her tribe, Evolet has shelter under the wing of Old Mother, the shamanic guru of the tribe. The Old Mother prophecies that the Yagahls are yet to go on a final hunt, and whoever can defeat the four-legged monsters would marry Evolet and win the White Spear.

The chief of the tribe, the father of D’Leh, has left the village to find another way for their salvation since he does not believe in the prophecy. The villagers think of him to be a coward and a betrayer. D’Leh and Evolet have fallen in love since childhood. After growing up, D’Leh must try his luck and kill a Mannak to win Evolet and the Spear. However, after killing a Mannak single-handedly, D’Leh contends that he got lucky and is not ready for the Spear. The following day, a tribe of horsemen invades the village, taking the Old Mother and Evolet with them. With Tic’Tic, Ka’Ren, and Baku, D’Leh sets out on an epic journey to retrieve Evolet and defeat the Gods.

10,000 BC Ending: Is The Almighty Dead or Alive?

The movie is guided by a narrating voice, heightening the drama. The agent keeps introducing us to different myths and mystical allusions. The film unfolds through a series of legends, the first one concerning the hunting of the woolly mammoths. Although D’Leh is unsure of himself, he kills one of the mammoths and gradually fulfills the prophecy. On the journey through the dunes, the Yagahls almost expend all their energy. Tic’Tic gets sick on the way while D’Leh goes to fetch food for him.

The food search sends D’Leh to an underground cave, where he rescues a saber-toothed tiger. He meets the tiger again in front of the Naku village, and after some pleading from his side, the tiger takes leave. The Naku people are ecstatic since the man who speaks to Saber-tooth will free their people, according to a tribal prophecy. Another major warning in the latter half of the movie is concerning Evolet. For the workers in the Mountain of the Gods, a prediction entails that only the person with star-shaped marks on the body will be able to end the reign of the gods.

D’Leh is worried since he is not the subject of this prophecy. Although before dying, Tic’Tic tells him that a prognosis can come true in myriad ways. We later learn that Evolet and not D’Leh is at the center of the prophecy. After discovering the mark on Evolet’s arm, the oppressors of the pyramid get to work. They take her to the “Almighty,” an old veiled person who is supposed to be God. The movie ends with D’Leh and others confronting the Almighty. Although they are supposed to be rebelling, they bow before the Almighty, manifesting his divinity.

The Almighty is even willing to let go of Evolet since her presence is potentially fatal for him. However, he is not willing to dismiss his horde of workers, who are meant to stay captive and lend a hand in God’s work. D’Leh denies submitting, lodging a spear for the throne of the Almighty. It seems that D’Leh is quite a sharpshooter. The Spear claims its prey, and the Almighty comes tumbling down from his throne.

After the incident, a ruckus ensues, and we do not have a definite end for the fate of the Almighty. We realize in the course of the story that the Almighty is no God since he fears death. His whole arsenal of advisors shudders from fear as they identify the person with the star mark i.e. Evolet. The legend also has that there were four of them until the other three died. The three disappeared divine beings may hark back the triadic structure in the global religions. On the other hand, the “Almighty” is possibly a colonizer indoctrinating the natives and asking them to follow his orders.

In the colonial era, indigenous cultures were subjected to an epistemic onslaught. Missionaries unveiled vile atrocities in different parts of the new world, deeming their earthen ways and animistic gods evil. As consequence, the indigenous cultures eroded, making room for alien cultures that had no intention of forging a dialogue. Their attempts to preach the ways of God were not so godly. Similarly, the Almighty’s mishandling of the local tribes is more evil than good, put in a strictly theological sense. The “Almighty” can be an alien for all we know. More importantly, he looks different than the locals, and he is not omniscient.

Is Evolet Dead or Alive? Is the Old Mother Dead or Alive?

After the death of the Almighty, a war erupts between those on the side of God and the pyramid workers. D’Leh, Nakudu, and other workers raise hell in the so-called “Mountain of the Gods.” The Mannaks also help by trampling a few state-sponsored soldiers. However, in the commotion, the wounded general gets hold of Evolet, escaping the premises on a stallion. However, Evolet can counter by picking up an arrow from the general’s inventory and stabbing the general with it.

The general and Evolet fall from the horse, while D’Leh locates Evolet in the crowd. After finding her, D’Leh rushes toward her, but the general does not let that happen. Seeing D’Leh, Evolet also runs towards him. But the general aims for Evolet, and before the reunion can take place, Evolet touches the ground. She is supposed to be dead, but the legend of the child with the blue eyes entails Evolet getting a fresh lease of life. Therefore, the Old Mother seemingly sacrifices herself to bring Evolet back to life. Thus, Evolet returns to life, and her return to the village calls for a celebration.

Do D’Leh And Evolet End Up Together?

After parting ways with Nakudu and the Naku tribe, D’Leh, Baku, Evolet, and the remaining tribespeople return to the village. However, you must wonder if Evolet and D’Leh end up together in the aftermath of the tale. The answer to this is pretty much given, although not explored in the ending itself. After all, the prophecy binds D’Leh and Evolet, especially now that he has fulfilled the prophecy and become the rightful owner of the White Spear. Therefore, we conclude that D’Leh and Evolet end up together.

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Movie Review: 10,000 BC

Editors note: This review is a little late, and its entirely my fault as I accidently passed it while working at SXSW in Austin.

The Following is Documented Wiki Info: The 10th millennium BC marks the beginning of the Mesolithic, or Epipaleolithic period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch.

[World population was likely below 5 million people, mostly hunting-gathering communities scattered over all continents, save for Antarctica, and with the proto-Lapita migration also reaching the islands of the Pacific. Pottery, and with pottery probably cooking, was developed independently in Japan and North Africa[citation needed]. It is likely that the earliest incidence of Agriculture, based on the cultivation of primitive forms of millet and rice, occurred in southeast Asia, around 10,000 BC. Agriculture also began to develop in the Armenian Highlands, and the Fertile Crescent, but would not be practiced widely or predominantly for another 2,000 years; however, figs of a parthenocarpic breed were found in the Gilgal I neolithic village in the Jordan River valley. The Würm glaciation ended, and the beginning interglacial, which endures to this day, allows the re-settlement of northern regions.]

That is the REAL 10,000 BC. The actuality and realism of the film is fictitiously hilarious and now that I've seen it, I believe it is just, and only, a special effects extravaganza. I cannot stress enough how all over the place this movie was, and that I was entertained primarily on the notion that this was a ridiculous film. Get ready readers, this may be one of the only pseudo bad reviews I give for a flick, and I will stress that while I did not hate this movie, I by no means loved it. I'm madly in like with this movie. I liked it okay. It's the best way I can describe it, almost like the way you enjoy Daredevil, "It's so bad, you can't keep your eyes away."

So there is a tribe. This tribe of hunters and gatherers are led by a woman who is the "Mother" of the tribe and has not just "I'm a witchdoctor" powers, but full blown psychic ability. The tribe is living at the top of a snowy mountain surrounded by such a beautiful and majestic view of clouds, you wonder how they could live at such an unbreathable elevation and that they would have died off that way anyhow. The beginning shows our hero Steven Strait, who is only a child. His father has created the ruse of leaving the tribe, but it was for a good cause which he keeps secret and still by the end of the movie I never understood completely why. There is a prophesy that a blue eyed girl would come and be the "Woman" of the hero of the tribe. When they get "All growned up" (Sorry, I'm in Nashville), the young blue eyed girl is the Super Hot Camilla Belle and there is a long overdo hunt about to begin. Needless to say the tribe of hunters in the same vein of Dances with Wolves attacks a bunch of fairly well done wooly mammoths.

Now see if you can keep up. I'm not joking, this is how Clusterfucked this film was...With stunning visuals. I'm giving the gist right now.

One night the village is attacked by four legged demons, (Viking looking men on Horses), they capture most of the villagers and take off. So Strait and two guys go after their people to rescue them. Yes, three naked hunters against, fully armed men on horseback. At the base of their snowy mountains they enter a steaming hot jungle in hot pursuit. Now even though I forgot to mention that the tribe is made up of pretty white people with dreads, Native Americans, and I believe, Eskimos, it all seemed like a puzzle that came with pieces that never intended to match. It was all very odd, because their captors are Egyptian Viking types. Egyptians are a more Middle Eastern looking and Vikings are giant Scandinavian blonds....So they combined the two. Now entering the jungle, this is where they are attacked ala Jurassic Park by man eating ostriches that look, sound, and attack like Raptors.

After this, it is the point where they hit the desert, and make allies with basically the whole of the Zulu nation, who agree to help them because the Vikings hit them too. Now is the confusing part. They secretly arrive at the pyramids that are being built by Africans and wooly mammoths. There is no Pharaoh, but a living god that they do not delve into enough to make him a substantial character. So they try to incite a revolt among the slaves, and take on Egypt.

See I'm getting confused now just trying to explain. They went from the snowy mountains, to the hot jungle, to the desert, and finally to the pyramids in that order. Which by the way, were not put together with wooly mammoths as beasts of burden, I think it was Jewish slaves, right?

Now without giving away anymore story I would like to say, it was a very attractive movie and the effects were extremely decent. Strait and Belle are both pretty little Hollywood newbies and did a good job with their longing looks and batting their pretty eyes. Also for your convenience, apparently 12,000 years ago, everyone still spoke proper English. I give it a 5/10, just for the effects and popcorn value of a throwaway movie. In a nutshell, if you can understand titling this movie "The Jurassic Apocalypto Pathfinder the Day after Tomorrow" You'd understand completely and not need to see it. However if you have a rainy Saturday going down and you feel like a matinee, do it up. Hunter (The writer, not the guy in the flick) may need to smoke a little something something before hand, but I believe everyone who sees this may need to inebriate themselves in order to actually get the depth, like Vietnam. "You weren't there man! Those hairy elephants were crazy!!"

I think it takes genius behind the scenes to put together a movie this epically beautiful. But I believe strongly as a writer and a reviewer that a well written script is important along with a wonderful director with vision, great production and a stunning visual team. A poorly written script with top fucking notch effects and promotion shouldn't be the bar we set to make bank on a film weekend to weekend. It needs to be the few and far between dirty rocks we clean off, and realize they are actually diamonds we were never expecting to come across.

Discuss: Does a movie need to be pretty and entertaining to matter, or have depth? We do not often get all the elements put together.

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• Times Of India

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superb action movie................................................................................................ ..................................................................................................................................................................................

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Clean, though full of superstition! Time pass!

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