10,000 BC [Blu-ray] [2008]

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Editorial reviews

Product Description
Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Omar Sharif, Steven Strait

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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 neighbour 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 movie-making. --Richard T. Jameson

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-10-08 rating:
Nice scenery, okayish story
I rented this movie on blue ray and I think its a great movie on blue ray disc, the landscape scenery and special effects are really good. A bit like Lord of the Rings/Apocalypto, but the story line isnt as intense. However its an easy watch and good for passing some time. I would give it higher rating if the story line was better, but I wouldnt class it as rubbish or boring at all. Give it a try!

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review by: date: 2008-09-07 rating:
A sabre-tooth fur ball...
...an enormous pile of mammoth faeces. Rastafarian cavemen but without the spliff. Need I go on?

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review by: radolphin entertainment date: 2008-08-31 rating:
A movie of epic proportions - excellent story and action sequences
This is undoubtedly a movie of epic proportion and in my opinion it delivers exactly that. It's absolutely cram packed with action, tension and the ingredients that makes movies into blockbusters. The SFX is out of this world, and ironically it's about our world, but centres on a period of time where there is little or no factual history - little over 12,000 years. It's an amazing perspective vision of Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser that creates a world that holds potential answers to some of the mysteries; such as the evolution of the pyramids and the advance civilisations that lived beyond their time.

The story about a primitive tribe called the Yagahl and a young boy called D'Leh; a young hunter who's abandoned by his father and grows up with his childhood love Evolet (Camilla Belle).

When a group of mysterious marauders ravage through the Yagahl village and kidnaps members of their tribe, including Evolet, D'Leh and a hunting party set-off on a quest to rescue them. Their journey is filled with danger as he encounters some prehistoric animals such as killer birds, and sabre-toothed tigers. His quest leads him and his party beyond the mountains where they encounter different evolved civilisations and tribes. He later discovers that his people and many more taken from other tribes are forced to work as slaves in building the great pyramids. D'Leh begins to mount an army to conquer the gods who have imprisoned his people, and bring down the tyranny before them all.

It's an action packed, visual experience that does it self justice. I could watch this movie more than once, and award it full marks, for creativeness, effects, storyline and the ability to make you think.

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review by: james date: 2008-08-15 rating:
Quite possibly the worst film i've EVER seen
I saw the advert and was really excited about seeing it as it looked exactly like the sort of films i really njoy.
I ended up struggling not to fall asleep in the cinema. No real story line, the graphics were pretty rubbish and the whole mammoths helping build the pyramds made no sense.

In one word.....RUBBISH

If you really must see it then please take my advice and rent it 1st because this is not a film you'll ever want to endure twice


review by: ZAC date: 2008-08-10 rating:
don't miss it
If this was just a dvd and not a blu-ray dvd i would give it 4 stars but i am giving it 5 because this movie looks great on blu-ray.Yes the film its self is great but it being on blu-ray makes it look so much better.I own a lot of blu-ray dvds and they all look great.so if you have a TV that takes blu-ray dvds buy this It's good and even if you don't have a TV that takes blu-ray films still buy this its great.

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