10,000 B.C. Reviews and Ratings



  • November 24, 2009
    I never expected this to be a love story.
  • November 24, 2009
    Why was this movie made?
  • November 21, 2009
    I wanted to see this film on my birthday when it first came out! But my friend wanted to watch a stupid cartoon instead, We went to see the stupid cartoon! !
  • November 17, 2009
    This film is a mish-mosh of historical, geographic, and biological nonsense, but it's fun to watch anyway. The photography and SFX are beautiful. The characters are likable (or just the opposite where the villains are concerned)and well acted. Forget realism, this is Conan with a...( read more) message, better acting, and better cinematography.
  • November 17, 2009
    "10,000 B.C." was yet another movie directed by Emmerich that failed to impress.

    Like Emmerich's previous movie, "The Day After Tomorrow", "10,000 B.C." had an awesome trailer and breath-taking special effects. Unfortunately, it seems like too much time was spent creating dazzl...( read more)ing effects while forgetting to include the key elements -- tension and suspense.

    I found myself yawning and even almost falling asleep at one point while surviving through the mammoth-paced storyline. It was mainly the weak dialog and the mundane acting that tore down what could have been a successful movie.

    You should see it if:

    - You love stunning special effects and sound effects

    - A shirtless man is all you care about

    - You are into cheesy love stories (Girl is kidnapped, boy goes across the world to rescue!)

    Run far, far away if:

    - You are expecting hardcore action from "300" or "Apocalypto"

    - Superior acting is what you seek

    - You are not patient enough for boring dialogs
  • November 16, 2009
    good, but over hyped
  • November 14, 2009
    not to bad. i like it :)
  • November 12, 2009
    go see this now just stop and go see it now !!!!!! got it on boot leg fidallass
  • November 11, 2009
    You have to hand it to him, Roland Emmerich thinks big. After the sci-fi extravaganzas Stargate and Independence Day, the historical epic The Patriot and the environmental disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow, he has set out to create his own mythology, no less. 10,000 BC embroi...( read more)ders the classic coming-of-age, boy-with-a-heroic-destiny legends and lore told around camp fires for millennia with straight-faced, pretentiously sober spirituality, made-up mysticism and reams of voiceover narration (from Omar Sharif). A fiercely good looking, inventively-clad cast interact among dizzying layers of CGI, visual and sound effects to make a preposterous prehistoric adventure quest that is undeniably spectacular. You can feel the earth and your teeth shake, rattle and roll when the mighty herds of massive woolly mamoths stampede through the dwarfed company of vulnerable but athletic spear carriers.

    What is more embarrassingly enjoyable, guilty fun is the brash daftness run rampant. You can laugh at, but still dote on, the invented culture, ritual and poetic utterances (a dying warrior serenely says ?I am full of days.?) of the plucky Stone Agers, who are, of course, highly attuned to the spirit world, signs and portents, and the forces of earth and the heavens.

    The Yagahl tribe (a hunky, dreadlocked lot in hide breeches and clay face packs) revere a crone called Old Mother. She crouches in her hide and bone lean-to speaking to the spirits and going into telepathic trances, suffering shakes and nosebleeds linked to the faraway travails befalling D?Leh (sincere, sinewy Steven Strait) and his handful of companions on their arduous trek on the trail of horse-riding, ship-sailing slavers to a lost civilization of proto-Egyptian meanies. It all takes place in a sort of imaginary Africa, by way of the Alps.

    The Yagahl don?t think much of D?Leh, something of an angst-ridden misfit who has father issues since the disappearance of his own, the leader of the tribe, who seemingly abandoned his people long ago. That?s one mystery that will be solved far, far away and many moons later. When his true love is snatched, however, D?leh resolves to rescue her, accompanied by his sympathetic, sage mentor Tic?Tic (Cliff Curtis), a cheeky boy follower, Baku (British teen Nathanael Baring) and a hot-headed rival for Evelet. And somewhere along the way he grows into a heroic leader of men.

    They don?t have a lot to work with, but one is struck by the quality of our heroes? rough-hewn footwear, which carries D?Leh and his fellowship from freezing mountain tops down into a Pleistocene jungle (where they are beset by 'Terror Birds', killer critters which look, unintentionally hilariously, much like gigantic, enraged ostrich chicks) and across the searing sands of a vast desert (and, eventually, back again.). They rack up more miles than Frodo, in a fraction of the time.
    En route D?Leh bonds with a sabre-toothed tiger (it?s a prophetic sign) like Androcles did with the Lion; invents celestial navigation after wandering lost in the desert like Moses; discovers Agriculture (which will come in very handy for future survival, given the background of climate change) and gathers to himself an impressive variety of beleaguered tribal peoples -- of many tongues, many skin tones and helpfully colour-coded costumery with excellent accessories -- as he goes, creating an army for a terrific climactic uprising at the end of the world.

    Needless to say, Emmerich and like-minded collaborator, co-writer, producer and co-composer Harald Kloser?s vision of things neolithic will have anthropologists, archaeologists and paleontologists rolling in the aisles. Documentary-drama realism this is not. But in its peregrinations from high-altitude camp fire to sophisticated pre-Pharaonic city (where harnessed mammoths helpfully toting the heavy loads offer a startling new hypothesis on how the pyramids were built) this opus happily and shamelessly plucks popular notions from every caveman and loincloth saga ever, from One Million Years B.C. to Apocalypto. There are also touches of Lord Of The Rings, The Thirteenth Warrior and all the spiffing silent screen role models of young men finding their courage and ingenuity; abducted heroines (Belle, although not, alas, given a fur bikini, is a good, comely one; and dastardly, decadent exotic fiends for villains, with terrifyingly long fake fingernails and a taste for human sacrifice. And all this without any nudity, profanity or visceral brutality! It?s really rather sweet.
  • November 11, 2009
    Interesting, but not great. Would not rent again.
  • November 10, 2009
    Day: Saturday
    Date: 8 March 2008
    Amt: 55/-
    Time: 9.45 pm
    Over at: 12.00 am
    With: Ismail
    Theatre: New Empire, Mumbai

    An Unusual Story of Love and Bravery. Outstanding Effects, A larger than life canvas. Though a little drag in between.
  • November 2, 2009
    Es como el "Apocalypto de los cavernicolas". Misma trama, solo que algunos milenios antes. Buen punto el del origen del faraon, que coincide con las versiones sumerias. Mal punto el de la construccion de las piramides en esa epoca.
  • November 1, 2009
    Long and boring, it just doesn't live up to the scope of what it wants to be.
  • October 28, 2009
    28/10/09
    "It takes a hero to change the world."
  • October 27, 2009
    the first few scenes with mammoths r amazing.
    the climax is incredible
  • October 27, 2009
    I saw it despite the bad reviews, and I was reminded that sometimes it truly does pay to listen to the critics. Ridiculous in so many ways it's impossible to know where to start. The special effects are pretty good, but it can't be taken seriously and therefore, it's impossible t...( read more)o get involved into the goings on.
  • October 24, 2009
    well umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch.....its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie....i think that camilla belle, steven strait, tim barlow, suri van sornsen, omar shariff, marco khan, joel virgel, cliff curti...( read more)s, reece ritchie play good roles/parts throughout this movie....i think that the director of this action/adventure/drama movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie....i think that the fight scenes were good throughout this movie...i think that this is a good sci-fi/fantasy movie n its good movie 2 watch
  • October 20, 2009
    very good but very unusual as well
  • October 19, 2009
    Some good action,but overall a over hyped cgi fest,with some wooden acting.Not worth a second watch.
  • October 11, 2009
    I enjoyed it. The sets were amazing and the ancient creatures were great. There wasn't a good story behind but it was ok to me.
  • October 8, 2009
    never saw the whole thing
  • October 6, 2009
    I kinda liked this one, at least it had a happy ending
  • September 29, 2009
    This a very weird and awesome movie all in one
  • September 29, 2009
    Alright, so 10,000 BC is not historically accurate, for instance woolly mammoths and horses did not roam earth at the same time, but as a bit of an escape, 10,000 BC is fine. The hero has to convince many tribes to join together to defeat the evil master.
  • September 27, 2009
    steven strait looked lik a mess.. he is still hot... :D
  • September 25, 2009
    Definitely an entertaining movie that did not disappoint. Good storyline with plenty of action to keep you watching. Definitely a fun watch.
  • September 24, 2009
    Cinematic blasphemy! Add Emerich lousiness and his noticeably Blockbuster style, mix it with a bowl of pretentiousness, add two spoons of bad CGI and mix it in a pool of historical innaccuracies. The result is boredom in its purest form and extreme unrealism. Save your life.

    3...( read more)6/100
  • September 21, 2009
    You know, it wasn`t as bad as everyone said it would be. I guess the whole mammoths, different tribes, mystics and then the horsemen and pyramid-builiding threw people off. The script wasn`t that great as seen from the inspirational speech Tic Tic gave D'Leh but it was not a bad ...( read more)save the girl, free the world sort of movie. My favourite bit was when this big guy was being whipped and his friend said, "Not yet," while he waited for the time to give that POS what for. Watch the scenery right at the end too. Hilarious. Otherwise not very memorable.
  • September 17, 2009
    I loved it!! It had romance, action, adventure and history..I think? The movie was about a man who went to the ends of the earth just for one woman.
  • September 14, 2009
    this movie was simply amazing.
  • September 13, 2009
    Cavemen with perfect, white teeth?? I don't think so. When movies overlook the small things, I overlook the movie.
  • September 11, 2009
    This is the worst film I think I've ever seen??? It absolutely sucks balls in hell! Do none of the actors, directors etc sit down b4 the film is released & think 'yup, we've made a stinker, back to the editing room'......ROLAND EMMERICH, YOU OWE ME THE £4 I PAID FOR THIS PIECE OF...( read more) SHITE, & YOU OWE ME 2 HOURS OF MY LIFE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • September 10, 2009
    Visulay good on bluray.
  • September 2, 2009
    Entertaining enough. Funny, funny, funny when "School Rumble" did a spoof of this!
  • September 1, 2009
    It's way far from being an masterpiece, but it's entertaining. I was expecting to find this movie as being crappy due to bad reviews, but I really enjoyed it.
  • August 31, 2009
    this movie was horrrrrrrrrrrrrrible
  • August 24, 2009
    A poor man's Apocalypto, not as good.
  • August 23, 2009
    10,000B.C makes absolutly no sense. The story complete crap, and the action is clumsy and boring.
  • August 21, 2009
    A mi me gusto muchisimo muy diferente el concepto
  • August 16, 2009
    Right, a guy who looks like jason Castro from American Idol who also looks as if a ham sandwich could kick his ass is gonna hunt a wooly mammoth? Noooo i think ill pass, thanks... EDIT: ok i saw it. and yes, if i were a ham sandwich i would not be scared of this caveman.
  • August 16, 2009
    Poor acting and characters, but still a good story.
  • August 13, 2009
    Better than I thought, it had a good story and the music was good too.
  • August 11, 2009
    compared to 300 how is it when its on tv maybe

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