 
10,000 B.C. a.k.a. “10,000 av. J.-C.,” “10.000 a.C.,” “10000 A.C.,” “I.e. 10 000”MPAA Rating:
 for sequences of intense action and violenceReviewed by: Thaisha Geiger Offensive
Moviemaking Quality:
 Primary Audience:
Adults, Teens
Genre:
Adventure, Drama
Length:
109 min.
Year of Release:
2008
USA Release:
March 7, 2008 (wide)
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“The legend. The battle. The first hero.” With a high budget of 75 million dollars and opening at over 3, 000 theatres, “10,000 B.C.” is expected to become a box office hit. The movie has been advertised almost relentlessly. The theatrical trailers were quite effective in building the suspense. In the previews, the audience saw the amazing CGI effects of the saber-toothed tiger and the mammoths. The action also looked promising when the hero and his followers attacked the enemy. For those who swoon at love stories, the previews also hinted at an onscreen romance. While the movie does contain all of these ingredients, the end product is not a gourmet feast, but rather a bland, over-priced lunch buffet. After her tribe is massacred, a young, blue-eyed Evolet is taken into a village. The holy mother of the tribe looks into Evolet’s mind and sees a vision. During the last hunt, “four-legged demons” will come into the village and steal the people away. A hunter will emerge from the village and become the man who will bring his tribe back together again. Evolet will be the “hero’s woman.” After this, Evolet feels like an outsider since she is part of a prophecy yet to be fulfilled. After his father leaves the tribe for unknown reasons, D’Leh feels like an outsider, too. Sharing this in common, D’Leh and Evolet fall into a forbidden love. Several years pass and the final hunt of the mammoths finally arrives. Killing the mammoth himself, D’Leh is given the White Spear and also Evolet’s hand in marriage. Feeling he did not truly kill the mammoth in bravery, D’Leh returns the White Spear and loses his chance to marry Evolet. Not long after, the prophecy of the “four-legged demons” becomes fulfilled. Men on horses raid the village, killing many and kidnapping several. One of the captors notices Evolet’s beauty and takes her for himself. After the raid, D’Leh is determined to free his love and his people. He and a few remaining warriors band together and begin to follow the bandits. Along the way, D’Leh encounters attacks and meets new tribal people who band together to free all who have been enslaved. The plot of this movie offers absolutely nothing new. I saw it had plot lines that borrowed heavily from other epic movies and from the Holy Bible. The acting is a bit wooden at times, and the dialogue is completely flat and even a bit corny. Their accents would range from sounding Russian to speaking in plain English. During the holy mother’s vision, the audience can clearly see what the “four-legged demons” are. I found myself waiting in boredom for this vision to come to pass. Touching moments were rare in the movie. It’s difficult for the audience to connect with the characters. When one of them would die, the background music would rise, hoping to fuel the moment. There are a lot of “What were you thinking?” moments throughout the film. D’Leh frees a saber-tooth tiger and tells him “When I release you, do not eat me.” Another example is when the captives are taken away in riverboats. Instead of following the river, D’Leh and his men venture out in the middle of the desert where many die off. I am guessing the enormous budget went to developing the CGI effects. At times, the tribe’s land looked like it was a museum exhibit; there were also times it appeared the characters were walking in front of a television screen. Since the film takes place in a pre-historic era, I did not hear any foul language or any misuse of the Lord’s name. The romance between D’Leh and Evolet is clean. They never sleep together and their love appears to be without lust. I found this refreshing and biblically approved. There wasn’t any sex in the film as well. When Evolet is captured, one of the criminals takes special notice of her. At one point, he buys her from her owner. His intention is implied, however, it is never carried out. He only touches her face with his hands. The violence in the film is almost a constant. I do not recommend parents taking younger children to see this film. It gets loud at times and slightly bloody. Several people get stabbed and the camera would often show the bloody, exiting wounds. One man gets “sacrificed.” It shows him getting thrown off a roof. Several of the slaves also get whipped. There is also one kind of creature that would jump and eat the humans. There is never any blood shown, but one can see the animals over the humans. The fighting scenes are not overly gory; however, parents should still take caution. There is absolutely no mention of the Lord in the film or His Holy Word. The tribes have their own gods to which they pray. D’leh and Evolet’s tribe has their own holy mother who does chants and prays to the gods for prosperity. The false gods of this movie are portrayed to be true and to answer prayers. The mother saw visions throughout the movie of D’Leh and Evolet’s journey. At one point, she was able to send strength to one of the ailing characters. Believers of Christ might find the portrayal of the false religion offensive. I found that the movie borrowed heavily from the Holy Bible. D’Leh was seen as a “messiah” for his people. The prophecy said that he would save his people and set them free. Throughout his journey, D’Leh fulfilled different prophecies, making the holy mother’s vision come true. Other tribes had their own prophecies about D’Leh, which made them believe and follow him. This reminds me of how Jesus Christ fulfilled several prophecies from the Old Testament. Many of these prophecies were written hundreds of years before Jesus was born. The prophecies Jesus fulfilled were so detailed that only the true Messiah could have fulfilled them. Throughout history, many people have arisen to declare themselves saviors of their people. These false leaders are now just dusty bones. However, the one true Savior, Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead and now gloriously sits with the Father in Heaven until His return. If you do not look too deeply into the plot or mind CGI creatures attacking humans, you might actually enjoy the film. I just ask that you do not expect this to be an epic film or another “Braveheart.” This film received several negative reviews. If you’re strapped for cash, like I am as a college student, then I recommend you wait for the movie to come out on DVD. Violence: Moderate / Profanity: None / Sex/Nudity: Minor See list of Relevant Issues—questions-and-answers.   Comments below:
Positive
Positive - Like most I was excited to see this movie as a action packed story of old. I was actually more surprised and pleased after I watched the movie because it was so much more. Positive - Our entire family went to the first showing on opening day. With two of our children in the Graphic Arts and one a Photographer (all in college) the visuals in the trailer were one of the first things to draw us to see the film. Positive - When my wife and I went to see this last night I was going with a critical eye with regard to the 'Hollywood' perspective as to what was taking place 10000 years before our Savior was born. I didn't know exactly what to expect but was surprised in both a positive and negative way. Positive - This movie was amazing. It was a hundred times better then I thought it would be. No language, no blood, no sexual content, just violence. This movie earned a five star in my book. I highly recommend it. Positive - I accompanied my 14 year old daughter to this reasonably enjoyable movie. Obviously, an epic-styled movie like this deserves to be seen on the big screen. I did not take my younger daughter, age 12, though the content was at worst, less violent than what children watch on regular television viewing these days. Positive - I thought this movie was done really well. Although there is no reference to the God of Abraham, this movie was entertaining. I saw it with my husband on our date night and it was a good movie for us. My husband who is a youth pastor, and I had great conversation after this movie. I don't believe there has been any movie recently that has combined prehistoric imagery with that of Egyptian. What an idea that it was the mammoths that helped build pyramids, which we thought was very plausable. There are references to prophecies and we thought even though there were different cultures in the movie that the prophecies intertwined, as it does in real life. We talked about the pyramids themselves and how is it that they were not just built in Egypt. Positive - This was an amazing movie. It looks like a movie for history buffs, but it's really a love story. I loved it. The only objection to the Bible would be the magic used in it. But it's important to be able to be strong enough in our beliefs that we can watch movies that conflict with them. Positive - I wasn't expecting this to be a good movie, actually I wasn't that excited about watching it, it was my brother that wanted so badly to watch it. I was greatly pleased with this movie! I found no cussing, or anything else innappropriate, the violence was mild, and I highly recomend it for anyone over 8 that is not afraid of monsters, as there were some strange looking tribal members and animals in the film. I thought the movie was going to support evolution, but I actually found that it didn't at all! Sure some of the animals looked a bit different, but I am sure animals did look different back them, they have changed a little. The story plot was good, it was well explained, it wasn't confusing, and the blood/gore level was extremely minor. Personally, Indiana Jones 2: The temple of Doom, bothered me much, much, MUCH more than this film, from a standpoint of violence, language, and everything else. Even the tribal members in the movie were not crazy about worshipping their gods. If you are trying decide whether or not to watch this film, I highly suggest you do! Positive - It was a pretty good movie. It made me want to take a biblical history class though. there were alot of hidden references to the Bible as well as history. Many times The main male charater reminded me of Jesus and Moses. The main female charatcer toward the end reminded me of Cleopatra! But the character similarity that made me laugh the most was the 'Mother' of the tribe, she so reminded me of the 'old woman of the tree' from Pocahontas! But all in all it was not waste of a Saturday afternoon. Neutral
Neutral - I thought that this was a good movie. It had a great fighting scene. I found nothing morally offensive and nothing sexual. I would recommend anyone to go see this. Neutral - I found it to be an average movie. Seemed to just never get moving. The computer generated graphics where on the most part good, but lacked realism in a few scenes. Was expecting a bit more action and lost interest when it didn't show, however the girls I was with (13/17/24) enjoyed it alot. A few scenes that showed blood and violent action (killing but not seen in view) but no nudity/sexual content or hit of it and no swearing (that I heard anyway). Spiritual aspect is quite prevalent in the movie. It's not of a biblical viewpoint, and reminded me of the 'mystic spirits' of the native American Indians or similar.
A good movie for 2 hours entertainment but not one I'll pay to see again. A love story sprinkled with action to get the guys in. Neutral - I saw this film and was very surprised it was so clean. It just seemed so average. The plot and the action was good, but the movie lacked authenticity. The cinematography was really bad. the acting didn't blow me away liked I thought it would. It felt like I was watching a show on the discovery channel. I was really disappointed because the trailer made it seem like it was going to be this mind blowing epic. I appreciate the effort, but at times it seemed laughable. Negative
Neutral - I didn't see or hear anything for christian viewers to be bothered about. What bothered me is that this movie is boring and poorly executed. Comments from young people
Neutral - I am a lover of movies. Many people say I am too critical of them but it's necessary. Let me just tell you… I saw this movie opening day and it was awful. It only got 1 star from the critics. Normally I disagree with them but they were right in giving 1 star to this movie. A lot of it was fake or corny or just plain boring. If you're 13 or under it would be a great movie for you but if you love movies and are looking forward to this I suggest running away or waiting to see it not full priced. I won't even see this when it comes out on DVD. The mammoths, the tiger, and the bird from the preview were the best parts of the movie. No lie...just watch the preview and that's all you need. On a Biblical level I did not see any relation. There was not much blood or gore. Just some scratches and fake blood here and there. No bad words no nudity no gore nothing offensive at all. The 'Almighty' one is a ruler of a slave driven camp building fake pyramids and fake statues and thinks of himself as god. They all worship him except the warriors at the very end when they kill him. The throw a spear right into him and the 'Almighty' one falls down some stairs in a his 5 godly dresses. Thus to prove no man can be a god. However, I laughed the whole time and there was no blood in sight. It was only PG-13 because of fighting which I missed from laughing so much. I don't know how anyone could take this movie seriously. Stay FAR FAR away. You have been warned. Neutral - Walk, walk, walk, walk... That is what happens through half the movie. The people who made this movie did a wonderful job advertising it, I went in thinking it was going to be an action packed film with sabertooths and battle scenes. No..They do a lot of walking and talking about freeing the captured girl who the 'hunter' is in love with. If you are like me and wanted to see an action movie I wouldn't recommend this at all.. If you are trying to get pumped up about doing some power walking or something this movie is for you!! There is also a lot of witchcraft in the movie as well. I would wait to see it on a friday night when it comes out to rent and you and your girlfriend/boyfriend want to see a sweet movie without much action.
But there is no cursing or sex AT ALL..that was my reason to put this under neutral. Because it is a clean movie... except for all the witch doctor stuff Neutral - I went to see this movie with a good friend who supports the young-earth-only-thousands-of-years-old-God-created-it point of view. He is well educated and is teaching a group of teens from the Bible ways to defend your faith and that creation makes more scientific sense than evolution. We went together to see this film thinking that we'd have a lot of Biblical refuting to do. We left disappointed, but in a good way. The movie actually shows some possible ideas for how tribes back in post-flood days could've been like. And the towers and pyramids show how a Babel-like people could have built their structures. Now, I'm not so well educated, but I love a good movie. From a filmmaking standpoint the movie was just OK. I found it to move slowly at times and felt like I could fall asleep. On the contrary, the story had some depth and the special effects were really good. On most movie review sites I found this one to get a C+, which I believe is acceptable. My recommendation: if you feel like you have to, spend a few bucks at the theatres, but if not, watch the trailer on Youtube, and you've pretty much seen the entire movie. Positive - When I walked in to the theater, I expected a tree hugger (evolutionist) point of view, but I found many biblical references throughout the movie. For one, the main character was found stuck in a pit with a lion on a snowy day (actually, stuck with saber toothed tiger on rainy day, but close enough). Later, he ends up rescuing his people from a place resembling Egypt. There are many other references, but I don't want to spoil the whole movie. The action scenes were incredible, especially with mammoths running down hundreds of guys at a time. I say this is one of the best movies of the year! Negative - My brother had the idea to rent this movie for the weekend, and I was a little curious about it myself. But we were both severely disappointed. It was awash in false pagan religion stuff that just made me sick, and it wasn't a very well made movie. It was confusing and depressing, and extremely offensive to someone with a Christian worldview. Negative - I was quite suprised that no one has wrote a negative review for this movie. The reason this movie is offensive is the pagan propheicies and rituals that completely fill and build up the movie. The start of the movie is very dark and gloomy, both in looks and actions, starting with a prophet violently shaking a child until he dies( the prophet not the child!). From there it goes on to show another prophet actually give up their soul to raise the main charcters girlfriend back to life. In all the story is too basic the theme too pagan, and the movie too dark. True the movie had some amazing special effects, and cool fighting sequences but in all it was too weird. Positive - I LOVED this movie! (THERE IS THE CHANCE OF A SPOLIER ALERT HERE!) The ways in which it resembled Moses in the Bible, as an (at first) unwilling leader sent to free his people from slavery. And the moral values were very good. I especially loved the part when the older man traveling with D'Leh was telling him to be the man to draw a circle around everyone and not to care only about yourself, but also the people around you. There was one part at the end that I thought was kinda cheesy-when the old mother died, which gave life to Evolet. But overall it was an AWESOME movie. Negative - The previews really built up this movie as an historical action film with great special effects and a real insight into what life was like... well, 10,000 BC. I'm sorry to say that it didn't even come close. I found everything to be so completely unrealistic that I couldn't even concentrate on what was going on in the plot. I'm still wondering how the tribes traveled from snowy mountains, to a tropical forest, then to a desert-like savanna in a matter of days. The characters were eating food and wearing clothes that they wouldn't have had access to 10,000 BC, and horses weren't even close to being domesticated. Don't even get me started on all the problems with the ships. The narrator was extremely distracting, and drew away from the movie and distanced the audience even more from what was going on. |
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