10,000 B.C. [Blu-ray]

Could Have Been So Much Better
First off, I did enjoy the movie. It wasn't fantastic by any stretch of the imagination, but it kept my attention. The special effects were well done (loved the sabretooth cat) and the costumes and score reflected the tone of the film. However, as many other reviewers have noted, the movie was almost plodding until the last 20 minutes and relied too heavily upon several convenient prophecies to propel the thin plot.

While I was hoping for something along the lines of The Scorpion King (Widescreen Collector's Edition), an action-packed sword and sandal flick, what I got was a movie where Clan of the Cave Bear meets Stargate (Ultimate Edition). We have a young girl with blue eyes taken in by a primitive tribe. They have a prophecy that she and one of their...

IT'S A CAVE MAN MOVIE FOR PETE'S SAKE!
If you went to this movie expecting to:

see a decent reinvention of the prehistory genre, filled with some imagination, a little more thought, better acting, more story line and less cheese than you normally find in this genre, then you saw a great movie. I like cave man comedies also, but the absence of fart jokes and zug zug was actually refreshing. We have seen all that before.

For those thinking they somehow were sitting in Godfather I, II or whatever you equate whith classic, all-time cinema, no wonder you were dissapointed! If you compare this movie WITHIN it's genre, it really is one of the best. It has plenty of natural humor withouth inane, whimsicle nonsense. It IS well acted for what that's worth. There is a plot. I did find some moments I would have done differently, but I think there is an alternate ending available.

It is a fantasy movie afterall, so suspension of belief is something you take with you before you even buy the ticket...

Anachronistic Festival
I can't believe that the guy who did Stargate and Independence Day could put out this loser. First, the story line is a ripoff of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto. Then, the constant anachronisms make it irritating to watch. 10,000 BC and you have guys riding horses and carrying metal swords. The Bronze Age was still a few thousand years away. Pyramid building in the age of the sabertooth and wooly mammoth! Yikes! I assume the story was taking place on the African continent because of all the African tribes; the heroes had to cross what looked like the Sahara desert, but at 10,000 BC the Sahara was a great big grassland. On and on these anachronisms went, so many that it was impossible to maintain the suspension of disbelief that is necessary to get into a movie. I'm willing to give a director dramatic license in order to make a good story, but in this case, he really abused it.

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