Rating of
2/4
An Epic Misstep
Chris Kavan - wrote on 03/31/08
You know, I always wanted to visit Africa, Egypt, the Amazon, the Alps, seasonal plains with woolly mammoth hunts... I just never believed it could happen in ONE movie!
Roland Emmerich seems to delight in picking and choosing his historical moments, as well as his settings. It's like he had a huge board filled with events (The Pyramids - sure. Domesticated Horses... good. Cool bird / dinosaur hybrids... alright) and various settings (jungle... desert... frozen mountains) then blindfolding himself and threw darts at said board.
Meanwhile, we have to have a story to go along with this mash-up of history: a love story for the ages and a the rise of a warrior who lead a group and save his enslaved people and unit the tribes of the world! I think he threw dart for the story too, only he used better movies and just borrowed their ideas.
The only thing going for 10,000 B.C. is the special effects, which are pretty good. The mammoths look nice, the bird / dinosaurs are creepy and the pretty much everything after they reach "Egypt" is spectacular eye candy. Hopefully, though, no one is basing a history report on this, or they're sure to get an F. However, as pure entertainment, I'll give it a solid C.
