Camilla Belle Movie:

		List Price: $35.99		Label: Warner Home Video Salesrank: 5254 Released: June 24, 2008
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
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.

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

10,000 B.C. [Blu-ray] Reviews:
No problem
2009-10-20 - Nice action motion picture. Negative points : a bit too long and a thin hair stretched writing !

Atlantis?
2009-10-16 - Ok. This movie is a real clinker. First, why are they building the damned pyramids in the first place? Second, what is the huge ship for? Then we have the (pre) historical inaccuracies...mammoths and smilodons in Africa? Also, who the hell are these pyramid builders? The inference from the dialogue and the rather modern looking map on the table is that they were supposedly from Atlantis. This whole thing is a mess.

10000 B.C.
2009-10-08 - If you can get past the facts of history, the movie can be entertaining. Sabre tooth tigers and wooley mammoths were long extinct when the pyramids were built, after 10,000 B.C. The graphics were fun and the hero of the film comes out ok. So to enjoy this flick, just let go of the facts, like Hollywood and the major networks news organizations do.

Strait to the Ice Age
2009-09-05 - Steven Strait, who needs a bit more acting experience, will make a smashing leading man. Indeed, aside from the strangely unnecessary Euro-trash accent he affects for this film, he is beautiful and stunning. We go a long way through endless titles without seeing a face and body like Strait's. What impressed me the most, though, was the way Strait handled his role. He reminded me of Jason Scott Lee in "Rapa Nui", and gave no worse a performance.

The film itself is a bit of fun, nothing more, but I was astonished at the possibility of this film approaching some sort of truth about that era. After all, we are treated to convincing pseudo-languages, the beginning of Egypt's line of pharaohs, the building of the Great Pyramid and even witness mammoth slave labor.

I actually took a star away for the bad habit of portraying people with albinism as the villiains. Otherwise it is fun, and Strait even manages a bit of his usual deadpan humor (who could talk to a Saber Tooth like Strait?). Some of the scenery as it was animated is rather lush and interesting...as is the example of what the climate was like.

Get it for fun, that is what movies are supposed to be and this one delivers. Personally I found no worse than "Clan of the Cave Bear"--and this film is far less disgusting. There is no swearing and lots of truly compelling action. Since "Clan" is the closest thing on the market to compete with this film, and since I am an undying fan of Strait, I highly recommend this for your dvd collection's "Silly But Fun" section.

Good purchase!!!! would buy again
2009-08-31 - I like how the shipping was fast, Brand new in plastic wrap, good service and fast delivery.. i recomend this to any body, They have my bussiness...