Camilla Belle Movie:

		List Price: $35.99		Label: Warner Home Video Salesrank: 6666 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:
Don't expect very much, and you might be entertained...
2009-12-19 - I love mind-expanding science fiction and fantasy. So even though I read reviews that panned 10,000 BC, I thought there was still something there to enjoy. After all, I'm even a fan of Battlefield Earth (and the book, which makes the movie even more entertaining).

So, 10,000 BC. Avoidable. Forgettable. Dispensable.

I'm glad I finally had the opportunity to view it. But the plot, which obviously parasitized plots and scenes from Jurassic Park, Stargate, Lawrence of Arabia, and who knows what else, was in trouble from the very beginning.

There is a tribe/clan/society of people living at high elevation, who live on and for the mastodons that travel through periodically. One day, a child with blue eyes is captured, and she is the basis for some strange prophecy. Destruction of the village, but eventually she will be part of its new future, yada yada. So she is taken by slave-raiders, and her "boyfriend" and a couple others go searching for her, meeting other tribes/clans/societies that team up to fight the slavers, the leader being, of course, a... 9 foot tall alien who is making a pyramid? And don't get me started on the whole, ridiculous saber-tooth tiger scenes!

The actions, accents, escapes, travels, victories, and rescues are just too, too, unbelievable... even for a fantasy movie! So see this once if you are a fan of the genre, then put it out of your mind.

This disc has both the widescreen and fullscreen versions included.

"Hey, kids, get your authentic paleo-whistle reproduction, free in specially marked boxes of Lucky Charms!"
2009-12-13 - Yet another oven-ready gobbler from the modern master of empty spectacle, Roland Emmerich. Not only does the story comprise cliches from every prehistoric-humans film ever made (not to mention an implicit nod to "Stargate", Aesop's fable of the lion and the mouse, and "The Ten Commandments"), but there is simply no emotional connection with any of the characters. You really don't give a damn what happens to any of them. And then there's an absurd "geist ex machina" ending.

Though Emmerich claims to have studied what's known about paleolithic life (he at least gets the pole star right), the principal characters live in a winter wonderland only a few days' walk from appears to be Egypt! That's carrying plate-tectonic theory a bit too far, dontcha think?

The only good thing about the film is the beautiful, seamless, CGI, missing only the piles of poop the wooly mammoths would have left while dragging huge blocks up the ramps.

One of My Top All Time Fave Movies(on dvd)
2009-12-02 - This is truly one of the great epics films to be made and put onto dvd!

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.