10,000 BC (2008) Review

By Mitchell Dean

Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 109 minutes
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Written by: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser
Cast: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel, Omar Sharif
Opens: March 7, 2008

Rating: The Beat Down (Horrible)

10,000 BC is 109 minutes to long!

Roland Emmerich will forever be known as the only director that can hit or miss so tremendously. He hit with Stargate, continued with Independence Day, but followed that up with Godzilla. Luckilly he struck back with The Patriot and The Day After Tommorow; but now we get this terrible celluloid mess, 10,000 BC. If you follow his track record, his next two films; 2012 and Fantastic Voyage, should be excellent movies.

Not to go to deep into the plot (what plot?), one tribe struggling to survive is attacked by a much larger tribe. That larger tribe causes havoc to all of the smaller surrounding tribes. Our main character is the chosen one. He wages what should be a fruitless war against the technologically advanced larger tribe to save his true love. He succeeds when he most definitely should have failed.

THE GOOD

The CGI effects are fun, but there are other films out there that do it better.

THE BAD & THE UGLY

I’ve been reeaally tryin’, baby, tryin’ to hold back this feelin’ for sooo long, and if you feel like I feel…

The plot is thin! So thin that is you tried to walk upon ice that was the same thickness you would surely drown.

The acting is second-rate and the direction is about the same. There are characters that appear to have been placed into the film at the last second leaving us, the audience to wonder, what was the point exactly.

Again, the cinematography and the CGI are okay, but there is definitely nothing here that hasn’t been done better somewhere else.

Don’t bother with this one. If you see the trailer on television, you have already seen the best of what 10,000 BC has to offer.

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