DVD
REVIEW: 10000 BC
06/22/08
Do not let the saber tooth
tiger and stubbly mammoths in the trailer fool you, director
Roland Emmerich had about 12.000 years of history to write a
compelling and fascinating story, instead he decided to show
the audience an over shown love story. I went with the
intention to see a great movie of the caliber of Mel
Gibson’s Apocalypto or Ridley Scott’s Gladiator instead you
get a human version of any Disney movie. The movie will
managed to entertain you for a good couple of minutes and
visually is mesmerizing, but it will not satisfy you
completely.
D’leh is the son of a mammoth hunter, living in the top of
the mountains, his people lives of the hunt in a peaceful
village. One day when D’leh was a young little boy, a girl
is brought to the campground from another village who has
been destroyed by four legged daemons. Old Mother, the
tribes’ prophet, foresee the same faith for her tribe, she
predicts that when these daemons come, a hero will raise
their tribe will change forever, and he will be with the
little girl as companions. D’leh’s father when he hears this
decides to leave to search a better way and leaves D’leh to
his best friend TicTic. D’leh is treated as the son of a
deserter, but finds comfort in the Little girl’s friendship
and love. Years passed, and D’leh has become a hunter
competing for the white spear, which is given to the top of
hunter, along with the hand of Evolet, the Little girl. He
accidentally wins it, but refuses it, that same night the
daemons come to the village, destroyed the village and take
the girl anf D’hel’s friends as prisoners. Now it is up to
D’hel, TicTic and Tic Tic’s Son to save their captured
friends, along a great adventure awaits for them fighting
wild beasts, horrible weather and meeting different cultures
along the way.
Roland Emmerich has us accustomed to impressive movies such
as Independence Day, and The Day After Tomorrow,
unfortunately, in 10.000 BC he fails in delivering an
engaging and persuasive story. The movie manage to grab the
audience attention with outstanding special effects and
beautiful scenes, but at the end, its plot and script will
let them with a sour taste; It lacks originality and
surprise, with a predictable Disney ending. Aside the story,
another let down of the movie is that it has a type of
accidental comedy; our hero is presented with some
situations that pretend to snag a smile from the audience,
but it ends up ruining the mood of the movie. The cast did a
great job performing their roles, specially Cliff Curtis
(Tic Tic) and Steven Strait (D‘leh) performed at their best;
Camille Belle (Evelet) performed good, but unfortunately she
did not get enough screen play to shows us all her talents.
The characters are sympathetic and charming in their own
way, all the different civilizations are well worked, in
that, production did a magnificent job; they are
impressively design, all of them looked amazing from the
hunters to the different civilizations, in special effects
the movie is remarkable everything seems very real.
After all the hype Warner had produced with this movie, it
was a great idea to released it in March, the movie is a
fresh air from what there is showing now in theaters, but it
does not meet expectations. 10000 B.C is a movie that goes
wrong from beginning to end, it is Historically and
biological inaccurate, and predictable entertaining wise;
watching a primitive society taken over a more advance
civilization has worked well in many movies, everybody likes
an underdog, and furthermore, watching a young hero fight
against everything for the love of his life has worked
better, regrettably, the way how it is shown is not
convincing enough. I recommend this movie to Sci-Fi and
Disney fans, also for everyone who wants to spend a good
time watching magnificent scenes and special effects, but if
you were expecting the first blockbuster of the season you
might be disappointed, 10000 B.C will be extinct from your
memory in a short period of time.
Review
By Milo
milo@smartcine.com
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VIDEO:
Standard [4:3 Transfer]
Widescreen [16:9 Transfer]
AUDIO:
Dolby Surround
5.1 - English
Dolby Surround 5.1 - French
Dolby Surround 5.1 - Spanish
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Alternate Endings:
This alternate ending gives more details about the ending of
the film. In my opinion there is too much information
presented in these 3 minutes. The original ending was good
enough for me. (3:06)
Deleted Scenes
A total of 10 deleted scenes. All related to the story
without any action scenes, None of these scenes add anything
new to the story. (10:38)
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People DVD Review
10000 B.C
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Victim |
0 |
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Any individual with average intelligence
would be punished by renting this
shallow, boring, and simplistic movie.
If you have made this mistake, please
ask for a refund. |
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Judd |
0 |
This is the worst movie I have ever
seen. Cavemen with blue eyes?
Shall I say anymore? |
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