10,000 B.C.

Oh boy...I really don’t know where to begin…but I can say this: 10,000 B.C. is probably the worst film I have seen this year, and since I don’t enjoy writing critiques for films I absolutely dislike, I figured I’d make it as short as possible…

Not only that the film was filled with factual errors and anachronisms such as metal working (not mastered before 5,500 B.C.), exploitation of horses for human transportation (started around 4,000 B.C.), pyramids (earliest one erected in Egypt around 2,600 B.C.), and the use of mammoths as domesticated animals (WTF??), the plot (if we can call it that) was just terrible and the acting and the dialogue even worse.

But all the goofs and errors, bad acting, a weak plot and terrible accents (yes, all the characters spoke with really….appaling accents) and computer-game-like CGI effects aside, what this film lacked the most was “suspense”. 10,000 B.C., which was advertised as a pre-historic epic adventure, lacked the suspense we expect from other epics such as Gladiator, Apocalypto, or 300 (10,000 B.C. includes some familiar elements from the three). In fact 10,000 B.C. was so boring that I watched the first half of the film last Saturday, and then took a break for a couple of days, and finally finished it off last night (hoping that it will get better…no, I think the second half was even worse).


* (one out of five) – I’d give it 0 if I could. They ought to ban Ronald Emmerich from making anything new.


V.

Oh yes, you can forget about the saber tooth tiger. That thing gets no more than 60 seconds of screen time, and for the record, there is no man VS. tiger duel. Disappointing, to say the least...

Enjoyed 10,000 B.C.? Viira recommends: Apocalypto, Gladiator, 300.


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