Writer and director Roland Emmerich's films have always had a great amount of appeal to the masses and enjoyed box office success, but they have unfortunately been, for the majority, disappointments. We expected much in their time thanks to the incredible hype of the likes of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, but did they deliver? Can they be classed as, looking back, more than just average? So what about his latest motion picture venture, 10,000 B.C.?
10,000 B.C. - Directed by Roland Emmerich.
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 109 minutes
First and foremost, I did not willingly see this film. Due to the selling out of The Cottage and The Game Plan's Universal certificate, this was the only other picture showing on that sorry excuse for a Saturday night of cinematic entertainment, courtesy of Cineworld's lackluster line-up.
From the opening, I knew that the film was going to be somewhat disposable. When two children in need of drama school start blurting out romantic cliches, you know that you better start looking for the exit signs, and the nearest bathroom.
Just when I thought nothing could be more unoriginal than the opening's dialogue, the carbon copying begins. 300 was one of the most internationally successful films of 2007, and it has definitely been influential. Not only has the pathetic Meet The Spartans used the film as its main element of a... plot, but 10,000 B.C. has been doing some thievery on the quiet. Certain sequences seem only too familiar to those of us "who saw 300,", such as one involving a raised platform and a javelin.
Whilst Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow can be considered to be of mediocre standard, 10,000 B.C. is genuine, bonafide, electrified garbage. The acting is borderline atrocious, the storyline is one of Hollywood's most overused (guy chasing girl), and the attempted seriousness of the drama at the film's climax actually made the audience laugh. We were not amused, and for the first time in my life as an avid cinema-goer, a good amount of people left and never returned.
As you can expect from the director, this is a CGI-rich motion picture with some of the worst content I've seen come out of Hollywood since Catwoman. I know it is only March, but I cannot foresee a film being released in 2008 that is more deserving of a Worst Picture Razzie than this. 10,000 B.C. is strictly for the deaf and blind.
Misawa's rating: 3/10
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10,000 B.C. Review
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Worst film i've seen this year.
All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectivly. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves.
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i didn't think it was completley terrible..
reminded me too much of 300 though, which i loved.
&i think the general storyline was a bit a rubbish.
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The storyline was rubbish yes, the action was good, it was 300 in 10000BC basically, i liked it due to the fact I like a good CGI movie now and again
I'm an alcoholic student, I troll naked with a parrot on my shoulder call Jeff.
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3/10?
Deserve a 2.
Terrible film.
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i thought it was gonna be good.
ill probably download it
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The trailers looked quite good for this o.o I'm surprised it gets rated so low, I'll have to see it sometime
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Me and my friends are going to the cinema next week, probably to see The Game Plan, one wants to see this but I said how it's been getting bad reviews
Originally Posted by Misawa
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You can't expect much from a live action Disney film, with a Universal certification and Dwayne Johnson as the leading man. Originally Posted by Neil
Me and my friends are going to the cinema next week, probably to see The Game Plan, one wants to see this but I said how it's been getting bad reviews
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