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10,000 BC [2008] | ![10,000 BC [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518ty4966%2BL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Roland Emmerich
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  39 reviews
Format: Pal
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321902139685
ASIN: B0014W0E1S
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: July 21, 2008
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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 moviemaking. --Richard T. Jameson
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 Honestly - don't bother! March 25, 2008
KM (England)
26 out of 36 found this review helpful
I'm not quite sure what happened here as director Roland Emmerich has made some amazing blockbusters in the past including The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day and Universal Soldier, even Godzilla wasn't too bad, but '10,000 BC' is one of the worst and most disappointing films that I've seen in a long time.
I was expecting an exciting, interesting, special effects masterpiece but instead this is a dull, ridiculous and just plain boring film that was about as interesting as watching the grass grow. The story is about a small village in the prehistoric times that is invaded by people on horses (4-legged demons) from another village. For some reason they kill some of them, take some of them and leave the rest. The main character, D'Leh then sets off on a journey to rescue his girlfriend Evolet. So you'd expect on the way he'd meet some prehistoric creatures that would be getting in his way, which kind-of happens, but not in the way I'd hoped. They do get attacked by some 10-foot turkeys and once D'Leh kills one of them, the rest seem to magically dissappear - so dead end there. Then he saves a sabre-tooth tiger from drowning. He kindly asks it to not kill him and luckily for D'Leh, this vicious beast can understand english and decides not to attack him. I mean, come on! That kind of stuff doesn't even happen in Disney films!
The acting is by far some of the worst I've ever witnessed. At the beginning D'Lea is a child and his acting is pretty bad, then it skips to when he's an adult and it just gets worse.
The film also seems to drag on and on and on, with no real solid storyline to keep me interested at all. Within about 30 minutes I was well ready to leave the cinema in boredom but decided to stay to the end incase something good happened. It didn't and I was left feeling ripped off and empty hearted.
I strongly recommend giving this film a miss as it is honestly one of the worst I've seen without even many special effects to save it. Overall this is a real struggle to watch and then when it's over you'll think "What's the point?". Very disappointing and real waste of time.
 Prehistoric fantasy film, ideal for kids. Unfairly panned, perhaps? March 26, 2008
Hooligween (Kernow, Great Britain)
16 out of 22 found this review helpful
10,000 BC certainly isn't one of the year's stand-out films, but it does seem to have attracted an unfair amount of criticism. We enjoyed the mix of woolly mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers, murderous slavers and giant pyramids. It's thoroughly unoriginal, and some of the CGI is a bit wonky (can no one animate a big cat with any real success? The lions in I Am Legend were pretty cartoony, too), but it's not as big a stinker as many critics would have you believe.
The opening sequences are a bit of a giveaway; the action centres of two tribal children, and fast-forwards from their young romance to their coming-of-age ceremony. OK, so this is a kid's movie really (much as Jumper turned out to be); an adventure-quest set in a time of spear-chucking hunters and giant, killer, sabre-toothed ostriches. Yes: mayhem inducing ostriches. What's not to love about killer emus...?
Viewed as family entertainment (no gore, straightforward moral messages about staying loyal to your loved ones, making allies across tribal boundaries, and so on), 10,000 BC makes plenty of sense if you're happy to suspend your snobbery along with your disbelief for 90 minutes. Unlike a couple of other well-hyped recent films (Cloverfield springs to mind), I wasn't actually bored during 10,000 BC -- and it was impossible not to let out a wee 'YAY!' when the enslaved mammoths got their rampaging revenge on their captors.
It even has a happy ending. So if you want some frivilous, un-stressful family entertainment, then 10,000 BC delivers. It's not clever, or subtle, or even particularly well produced. But it was fun.
On a small screen, you will run into the usual problems with CGI-heavy films; that the glitches which get masked on a cinema screen tend to show up on a TV at home. So if you have hi-def then go for the Blu-Ray version for better visuals. And if you can plug in surround sound then it'll help because Omar Shariff mumbles his way through the narration (doh! Why have someone that famous do the voice-over if you can't hear them?).
Mostly harmless. Keep clear if you want your cinema to be clever, but sit back enjoy if you're a fan of big, dumb movies.
7/10
 The Prehistoric Guide to History and Geography May 3, 2008
Amanda Richards (ECD, Guyana)
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
Short Attention Span Summary (SASS):
1. People in 10,000 BC looked just like us, except dirtier - and some even copied hairstyles from American Idol's Jason Castro.
2. Ughh! Grunt!! No, wait a minute, these folk speak in complete sentences. My bad.
3. Where there's a tribe there's a prophecy
4. Welcome to the annual "Hunting of the Mammoth" shindig and hoedown
5. Forget T-Rex - the biggest threat to prehistoric people were the horseback-riding Slave traders with their fancy sailboats
6. "I'll climb a mountain for you, trek through dangerous tropical jungles, walk across the desert sand, dance with tigers, and then I'll unite the tribes of Africa - so - wanna come back to my cave and see my etchings?"
7. The slaves are revolting (but not as revolting as the Almighty leader of the Lost Civilization)
8. One of the perks of being an Almighty leader is getting cool finger-wear
9. It ain't over until the fat lady croaks
I laughed and laughed until I cried
I almost felt euphoric
This cheesy, silly bit of trash
Claims to be prehistoric
Start with the mammoth hunting folk
A far-flung mountain tribe
In drops the pretty blue-eyed girl
That legend did describe
Along come warriors seeking slaves
On horseback none-the-less
With bows and arrows, boats with sails
But let me not digress
Of course they take the pretty girl
This gets her hubby steamed
A little group goes in pursuit
Much further than they'd dreamed
Climbing every mountain peak
Fjording every stream
Soon they reach a jungle
Man, this movie is a scream
Fighting off the turkey-birds
Slogging through the land
Next they meet some other tribes
And march on through the sand
In time they reach their journey's end
A land ruled by a God
Who loves a human sacrifice
And really looks quite odd
Like Godzilla and ID 4
This one misses the mark
As far as entertainment goes
This movie jumped the shark
Amanda Richards
 Dont listern to them idiots the film was Brilliant April 3, 2008
Mr. Terry D. Jarvis
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
The probleam is people took this film to seriously and probabaly didnt have a clue what to expect to them what they saw was probabaly something like Ice Age.Honestly why has this got such bad press its a good action/adventure movie i loved the cgi in this it was brilliant.Worth a watch.How can people speak so highly of rubbish like Meet the Spartans but not ackknowledge what a great movie this truly is.Get the dvd when it comes out worth a watch.Omar Sharif is the narrator for all you Doctor Zhivago fans out there.
Mammoth disappointment April 1, 2008
P. Bell
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Most disappointing film ever! The story line is so bad that I reckon the title stands for 10 000 botched chances. Using hairy mammoths, equipped to deal with bad weather, to build the pyramids in the baking heat hmmm, D'leh walks from New Zealand to Egypt, gets in a few scrapes........... no I am going to quit here as I will only get annoyed thinking back over the plot and end up looking like "mother"(the last person alive who can still talk to the earth-zzzzzz) at the end.
Great visuals though, the mammoths look tremendous and the pyramids majestic. All except for the sabre toothed tiger when it appears in the village, that had an Ice Age 2 sort of appearance about it.
This has the visual appeal that I would have expected from one of the men behind Stargate, Independance Day and The Day After Tomorrow, but has a story line that is easily outclassed by any episode of Itchy and Scratchy from the Simpsons.
Omar Shariff must have swallowed any pride he has to have taken the cash for narrating this twaddle. Having to tell us all about the birds with red wings - ships with red sails, and four legged demons - people on horseback, various convenient prophecies that reeked of too little thought and a need to keep the film moving, must have required every ounce of his acting ability to even stay awake.
By the end of the film I did not care one jot about the Legend of the Boy with Blue Eyes, oft mentioned, but never expanded upon.
Basically Mr. Emmerich has an incredibly low vision of his audience and an even lower one of the people who lived 12008 years ago.
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