From the reviews I've read about this movie, it sounded like the worst big budget movie ever made. Now that I've seen it, I can understand why people would say it was so terrible. I will admit 10,000 B.C. is not the best movie ever made for the following reasons:
1. The good guys speak English. I have no problem with that, but when the villains speak another language (which is often made up of grunts and shrieks) to those who speak English, they act like they understand them.
2. Many characters have pearly white teeth. I thought dentists weren't around back then? 3. Almost everyone has long dreadlocks. I had the assumption that people long ago could care less about their hairstyle, unless of course they were of royalty.
4. The movie does not explain any history to as what tribe the good guys represent and what the bad guys represent. The Babylonians? The Assyrians? Egyptians? No basis of history.
5. There are a bunch of prophecies and legends from the tribes that are quickly introduced, into the film, that aren't developed or elaborated. They seem to be thrown in by the screenwriters at the last minute.
6. When there comes CGI there is great action sequences. They were very entertaining, but they lacked the suspense that King Kong or even The Lord of the Rings had.
7. Omar Sharif is a great actor, but not a great narrator. Rather than speaking distinctively, he mumbles throughout the film.
8. With the cast, everyone sounds rehearsed. The actors don't express a whole lot of emotion in the film, making me not care for them. Even the villains are bland.
Despite all of those flaws, I actually enjoyed the film. The costume design and set-decoration was wonderfully mastered. I felt like I was seeing a nice Hollywood depiction of what civilization may have looked like thousands of years ago. This movie also has some wonderful CGI. The mammoths look real, so real that I almost would want to reach out and touch their fur. I was also mildly interested in the typical "saving the damsel in distress and freeing the people part" of the little solid story it had.
To sum this film up, it is a big budget film that probably most people will forget over the next month like many people did with Alexander. 5/10
1. The good guys speak English. I have no problem with that, but when the villains speak another language (which is often made up of grunts and shrieks) to those who speak English, they act like they understand them.
2. Many characters have pearly white teeth. I thought dentists weren't around back then? 3. Almost everyone has long dreadlocks. I had the assumption that people long ago could care less about their hairstyle, unless of course they were of royalty.
4. The movie does not explain any history to as what tribe the good guys represent and what the bad guys represent. The Babylonians? The Assyrians? Egyptians? No basis of history.
5. There are a bunch of prophecies and legends from the tribes that are quickly introduced, into the film, that aren't developed or elaborated. They seem to be thrown in by the screenwriters at the last minute.
6. When there comes CGI there is great action sequences. They were very entertaining, but they lacked the suspense that King Kong or even The Lord of the Rings had.
7. Omar Sharif is a great actor, but not a great narrator. Rather than speaking distinctively, he mumbles throughout the film.
8. With the cast, everyone sounds rehearsed. The actors don't express a whole lot of emotion in the film, making me not care for them. Even the villains are bland.
Despite all of those flaws, I actually enjoyed the film. The costume design and set-decoration was wonderfully mastered. I felt like I was seeing a nice Hollywood depiction of what civilization may have looked like thousands of years ago. This movie also has some wonderful CGI. The mammoths look real, so real that I almost would want to reach out and touch their fur. I was also mildly interested in the typical "saving the damsel in distress and freeing the people part" of the little solid story it had.
To sum this film up, it is a big budget film that probably most people will forget over the next month like many people did with Alexander. 5/10