Review of 10,000 BC (2008) by Valeen H — 18 Apr 2010
Etting away from cities and planet Earth being destroyed, well before 2012 (2009) at least, director Roland Emmerich takes us back to when civilisation was coming about. It might not be historically accurate, but it does have it's moments, and it makes for a good cheesy action adventure.
Set (probabily) in it's titular year, it has D'Leh (Steven Strait), going off on a long quest to rescue his girlfriend Evolet (Camilla Belle) who has been kidnapped by raiders from a pre-Egyptian civisation, D'Leh goes with Tic'Tic (Cliff Curtis) and Ka'Ren (Mo Zinal), and form an alliance with the Naku tribe, led by Nakudu (Joel Virgel), whose people have been affected by the raiders too.
Emmerich certainly knows how to do things on a big scale, and to do some good action scenes. He gives us woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers, and the film is beautifully shot. But, it's historical inaccuracy lets it down, or maybe it's not meant to be accurate, judging from his other films, science is not Emmerich's forte, but it does make a good change from the disaster films he's well known for.
It's just a bit of harmless, dumb fun, it also has a warm narration by Omar Sharif.
This review of 10,000 BC (2008) was written by Valeen H on 18 Apr 2010.
10,000 BC has generally received mixed reviews.
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