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| 10,000 BC (Steel Book Collector's Edition) [2008] | ![10,000 BC (Steel Book Collector's Edition) [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51W30-2R-wL._SL160_.jpg)
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| Director: Roland Emmerich
Actors: Cliff Curtis, Steven Strait, Tim Barlow, Omar Sharif, Camilla Belle
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: £22.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 10946
Format: Limited Edition, Pal
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Number Of Items: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321902224077
ASIN: B0017U09HQ
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 movie-making. --Richard T. Jameson
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 10,000 BC August 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
10,000 BC - Where to start?
The beginning of the film is characterised by dreadful acting and poor pacing. The awful dialogue fails to mask the wooden actors and the rushed pace doesn't give any time for the viewer to begin to remotely care about any of the characters, who all sound the same anyway.
You are then dropped into what appears to be a cheap rip off of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, complete with ridiculous ten foot flesh eating birds as well as the usual 'I'll come back for you' lines delivered with all the emotion of Al Gore on sedatives, reading the phonebook. This area of the film ends with a surprisingly friendly saber toothed cat, trapped in a pit for some reason and a lot of friendly desert tribes willing to die after a bizzar (and coincidental) prophecy appears to have come true. (the tribes also seem to be competing in a 'Worst Costume' competition, look out for the tribe dressed in what looks like corn)
The culmination of this mess is an idiotic Egyptian scene complete with unionised work-Mamoths (how an animal suited to Arctic weather could survive in an egyptian desert is ignored along with many, many other glaring mistakes) as well as a hint to the real pyramids being constructed by wither aliens or the survivors of atlantis. This part of the film actually exceeds the previous ones in being so bad it's almost unwatchable, every shot, every scene taken from another film and ruined.
To sum up, this pathetic film is poorly scripted, acted, directed and written. (assuming someone actually wrote this thing) The only saving grace is the CGI effects, which though impressive in areas, fall far short of covering the mediocrity and downright stupidity of this sham of a film. It goes to show that in the right hands, even the best idea can be reduced to a muddled disaster, everyone involved in this debacle should be banned from getting anywhere near a film set again.
Please, please don't waste your money on this rubbish, I can't begin to describe how awful this thing is.
Watchable July 27, 2008
Basic plot: A 'prehistoric tribe' are taken prisoner by the 'prehistoric egyptians' to build the great pyramids. One warrior sets out to rescue them and set his people free. Not sure that there were wooly mammoths and sabre tooth tigers around during the building of the pyramids. regardless of the inaccuracy of historical events, this film is watchable. Great one for the kids or family viewing.
 10,000 BC July 2, 2008
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
I wasn't born then. I'm sure if I was though my sarong would be lying on a bedroom floor, covered in glitter and bear blood. Saucy little shenanigins.
 10,000 BC June 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I went to the cinema to see this, what a treat, been a long time since we had a good prehistoric film to enjoy....but let me just say this.. perfect teeth shiny and WHITE.. must have had good dentists back then!!! also certain beasties where not around at the same time either.. putting that aside this is a fun and enjoyable film and yes i did enjoy and my 13 year old also enjoyed. Enjoyed this more than Dragon Wars but that's not difficult.!!Be good to see what the extras are going to be on the DVD. But i will buy this when it comes out.
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