10,000 BC [2008]

Product Details

Director : Roland Emmerich
Format : PAL
Binding : DVD
EAN : 7321902139685
Product Group : DVD
Region Code : 2
Release Date : 2008-07-21
Running Time : 105minutes
Studio : Warner Home Video

ASIN : B0014W0E1S

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Editorial Reviews

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

Customer Reviews

A solid "fantastic" BC movie (2008-08-18)

If you like action movies, in a inusual contest (a fantasy BC world, with a eye to Conan and another to Stargate) is a good film. A classic plot (ransome and rescue), good action scenes (with a "brilliant" mammouths charge)with a minor cast and a director not at the best of his possibilities. Sabre tooth tigers, "raptors-like" predators, slaves' merchants and an "alien" bad guy..... too much for a "historic" film ? Perhaps.

Dross (2008-08-15)

this film is absolutely awful, the worst i have seen in a very long time, i just wish i had read reviews before actually spending my money on this rubbish, a complete rip off of apocolypto, but done terribly. A complete waste of time. DO NOT bother to watch this film, it is rubbish, the director should be ashamed of himself.

Hmmmmm (2008-08-15)

We seem to be getting alot of these films recently. Girl falls in love with boy, girl kidnapped, boy follows girl, boy and girl reunited. This is basically the plot of 10,000 BC, except the film is quite a trudge. Theres a couple of exciting bits with the Wooly Mamoth hunt and dinosaurs in the jungle and ending up at the pyramids (timelines slightly incorrect!), but generally the film drags and is fairly slow obvious pap.

New Age of Aquarius stuff (2008-08-05)

New Age of Aquarius Enlightenment Revolution Movement movie for kids, "10,000bc" now out on DVD. Interesting arcane references to astrology, the North Star, human sacrifice, Atlantis, glimpses of anachronistic maps, Masonic compass, plus the switch from hunter-gatherer to warrior and the struggle of the emerging farming peasant in the Nile valley against a parasitical ruling oligarchy. An Elite astrologically fixated freakish ruling dynastic oligarchy that in turn farms/enslaves the peasantry. Loved the amusing revolutionary toppling of the golden capstone of Cheops and the Sphinx, still in Lion form, looking at the Leo Constellation in 10,000bc, during the last Age of Leo. Although the original Sphinx may indeed be that old I am not entirely convinced the "York Rite Capstone" fell off a nearly completed Orion Belt Cheops Pyramid quite that long ago, but the reference was probably more symbological rather than attempting any real historical accuracy. Problem is of course that most people will not get the arcane references to Osiris, Isis, Set and Horus et al unless they understand quite a bit more about the oligarchy, and our weird Bohemian Grove attending Lords and Masters, than the Tee Vee mind-drug normally lets the goyim see. Was a bit disappointed that the astrological stone with a hole for stargazing did not show us Crux or the god Horus on the southern Horizon, those who have watched Zeitgeist might have chuckled.

Oh dear... (2008-08-02)

I'll admit, it looked good from the trailer, but boy, I saw this at the cinema and it was one bad film!Nice special effects, but that does not carry a whole movie. Once the mammoth hunting scene is over, the movie seems to have completely ran out of ideas so just rips off Mel Gibson's Apocalypto. Horrendous dialogue, wooden acting and some random old lady who pops up now and again. She's meant to be an important character who can see danger coming (oohh... that's originality for you!) but every time she's on screen she makes the audience laugh at her. Other funny moments include a ludicrous chase between the cavemen and some weird do-do creatures, a caveman asking a sabre-toothed tiger not to eat him when he sets him free and then later when the same tiger pounces on them, he asks it if it remembers him.By the time the movie was over, about ¾ of the audience had left. I wish I went with them.Look, I can forgive the massive historical and geographical errors since this was just mean to be entertaining, but that is no excuse for it to simply be just an exercise in terrible film making.Seriously, don't waste your time and money.

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