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

10,000 B.C. [Blu-ray]
by Roland Emmerich

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Actor: Camilla Belle, Steven Strait
Director: Roland Emmerich
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-24
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video

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Movie Review: A Rehashed Theme- but there's a reason it's rehashed!
Summary: 4 Stars

For some reason, reviews on 10,000 BC have not been so hot. I happened to have enjoyed it. The effects are really cool, plenty of action, and the mythic themes are some of my favorites. Yeah, the plot is predictable and "done before"- but who cares? It's a good one!

The story begins when a girl child named Evolet is brought into the village of the Yaghal- somewhere in the remote mountains of Euroasia. (Evolet's own village having been destroyed by the "four-legged beasts"). Her coming to the Yaghal portends a great omen. A prophecy is given that the new leader of their tribe will one day marry her and they together will defeat the Almighty.

D'leh, a young man of the tribe, knows she is his heart's desire, even at a young age, and when the time comes for the next leader to be chosen he will make sure he is the one.

Years pass and the time has come- the last hunt of the Mammoths will determine the next leader and indeed D'leh (Steven Strait) is the one who slays the giant beast. But he feels he has won it by default because, basically, the Mammoth just fell on his spear. So he hands the leadership reigns back over. At the same time, their village is invaded by the "four-legged beasts" (men on horseback) and Evolet (Camilla Belle) is taken captive.

D'leh sets out with the rest of the men to collect her and in the process becomes the man who's time was foretold all those years ago.

Like many mythic themes this one tells a story we all know. People are enslaved. An unlikely deliverer arises and sets his people free by destroys the captor and most times, his empire as well. A time of peace reigns and there is much rejoicing in the land.

Yeah, it's been done before- but what a story to tell!

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

The filmmaker who launched a UFO invasion in Independence Day and unleashed the forces of global warming in The Day After Tomorrow now unveils a new day of adventure, a time when mammoths shake the earth and mystical spirits shape human fates. Roland Emmerich directs 10,000 BC, the eye-filling tale of the first hero. That hero is young hunter D'Leh (Steven Strait), set out on a bold trek to rescue his kidnapped beloved (Camilla Belle) and fulfill his prophetic destiny. He'll face an awesome saber-toothed tiger. Cross uncharted realms. Form an army. And uncover an advanced but corrupt Lost Civilization. There, he will lead a fight for liberation - and become the champion of the time when legend began.

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 neighbor 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 moviemaking. --Richard T. Jameson

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