Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391139683
Format: Closed-captioned
Item Dimensions: Array
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: WARD023986D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-06-24
Running Time: 109
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2008-03-07

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

Customer Rating:
Summary: It's Not Bad
Comment: Okay, so this movie may not be the blockbuster hit of the year, but I actually thought it was halfway decent. First off, I love Stargate so I thought the not-so-surprising resemblance in certain areas extremely amusing. Also, the story itself is not so bad. Love conquers all, good vs evil, man vs nature, conincedence vs fate--they pretty much have it all.

As for historical inaccuracies... well, really, who cares? Can we say '300'? Or any of the other hundreds of movies set in prehistoric/ancient/classical times that swerves so far from reality as to be completely unrelated? If it really bothers viewers so much, just do what I do: pretend it's somewhere else. Pretty easy, really.

I will say that the best part of this movie had nothing to do with special effects (which I thought were fairly impressive) or the acting (which... did leave something to the imagination) or the plot (yeah...), but with the music. Harold Kloser did an amazing job with this music, even if parts of it do sound strangely similar to 'The Day After Tomorrow'. Eh, who cares? There are times when I can't tell the 'Independence Day' and 'Stargate' soundtracks apart, but they are both very good.

Anyway, the movie was good and even if it isn't a I-must-have-this-movie flick, it's still good fun when your in the mood for a movie that's filled with beautiful scenery and cool prehistoric animals and Egyptian/Stargate-style sets.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: not quite "fulfilling"
Comment: *10,000 B.C.* just couldn't quite be THE movie, although there were quite some interesting elements in it.

This movie focuses on a clan during a time when mammoths and sabertooths roam the earth. D'leh is isolated from his peers because his father, the clan's leader, had forsaken them. Also in the clan is the adopted blue-eyed girl.

When the girl is taken hostage in a land faraway, which you assume to be Egypt, D'leh and a few men go after them. And, along the way, they encounter little adventures.

Simple story with minimal dialogues. It's a simple damsel-in-distress plot that works just about every time. While there were cool special effects, there were misses here and there. I think what really hurt this film was that the story moved at a slow pace. Slow pace + minimal dialoge = not good.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazing CGI effects!
Comment: I just saw the movie. Its a great storyline. But above all, the special effects are amazing, worthy of watching on HD with a booming surround sound. I rented it at one of those vending machines at the supermarket. I wanna watch it in blue ray , once i get my PS3 this week. Enjoy.

Oh, and by the way. I'm sure the actors are getting a lot of heat in these reviews, but they're newcomers. So, you won't get the same tired old faces like cruise, foster or samuel l. jackson...lol. not that there's anything wrong with them but: I'm tired of these m-----f----- snakes!!! lol

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent!!!
Comment: Excellent service, I received this item before the estimated time. I will get more products with them.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Pretty good movie, but not what I expected...
Comment: This was a pretty decent movie...but these cavemen were very intelligent, and spoke english very well....decent movie, but not what I was expecting...glad I waited to see it on DVD...

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