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| Director: Roland Emmerich
Actors: Camilla Belle, Steven Strait
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $35.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  252 reviews
Sales Rank: 2644
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 109
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: WARBR23985
UPC: 085391139676
EAN: 0085391139676
ASIN: B0017U7PT6
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/24/2008 Rating: Pg13
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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
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 10000 BC January 6, 2009
Great movie. Enjoyed the dramatics as well as the story line. Kind of 13th warrior ish but with less dialog. A BC fairy tale.
 IN A NUTSHELL: January 2, 2009
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Alley Oop teams up with Shaka Zulu to become Moses and free their peoples from Pharaoh Palpatine's enslavement. Makes as much sense as furry mammoths in the Sahara desert.
Oops, I just gave away the movie. Doesn't matter; in fact, you oughtta thank me!
Boring! December 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I kept thinking to myself in the first 5-10 minutes, I should just turn this off. I really should have. It doesn't get any better as you keep watching. Save yourself the time and watch something else.
About as DIRE as movies get! December 28, 2008
10,000BC? The story could've been set any time any place - and has been, and has been told far, far better in many other movies. Guy loses girl; guy fights to get girl back; guy gets girl. And that's probably all the script itself said, considering the quality of acting and dialogue.
But my biggest problem with this pile of garbage is the marketing. When you look at the packaging, you see a guy going up against a monstrous saber-tooth tiger. And again on the back of the case they show this creature. You think, wow, this must be man battling the hellish monsters of old. With today's CGI that could've been so cool. Instead, the tiger is in the movie for about 60 seconds - there's no battle, the thing doesn't even bloody its claws.
Oh, there's a few mammoths that stampede, yeah. But when you compare that to the similar elements in the climax battle of Return of the King, it's an absolutely pitiful scene.
The only saving grace is the giant bird scene. If the movie could have developed along similar lines it could really have been a great movie. It's this few minutes that give it the one star, otherwise I'd have complained about not having a zero star option!
The marketing is a con. Don't be suckered. Let this garbage rot then maybe the producers will get the message and give us something decent to watch next time out.
B**A**D December 27, 2008
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.. I almost fell asleep. It could have been so much better with a better producer. It almost looks like a low budget film. And whats with the cast having their eyebrows "done"??? Whats up with that? I thought it was called 10,000 BC?
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