10,000 b.c. (2008)

Good Entertainment, no History Lesson
You probably noticed by reading some of the other reviews that this movie is not very accurate in regards to history. So if you plan to go to the movie to learn something, do yourself the favor and do not go. You will be disappointed. The action is nice, but not spectacular. If you like the two things that I mentioned, you will be better off with the movie "300", which is a great movie and actually based on real historic events.

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If you look at the movie at what it is, entertainment for the sake of entertainment, you will probably enjoy the movie. I did enjoy it and will also buy the DVD when it comes out. The story is about love and has a considerable amount of fantasy flair to it. People would probably have given better ratings, if the setting of the events would have been fictitious (other planet, millions of years ago etc.), because then there would it have been clear that the movie does not even attempt to reflect real history in any way.

Just bad in every single way!!!
What can I say about this movie. It is just bad on every level. Sabre-tooth tigers in Africa??? Wooly mammoths in Egypt, impossible!!! They would have died from the heat. No remains of a wooly mammoth have been found anywhere other than North America, north Russia and Siberia. Modern day African elephants have never been domesticated as beasts of burden, only Asian elephants and even they can be somewhat troublesome from time to time. And iron weapons, oh please. No indication of any iron metal-working has been found from that time period. If this movie was supposed to be fantasy, o.k., but it didn't work on that level either, as the storyline and action scenes have all been done and seen before. Nothing new for us. Roland Emmerich should be ashamed of himself. I wish there were a way he could be banned from film-making after this giant turkey. that's what those things were in the jungle scene, weren't they?

Great Movie
I thought this movie was fun and with some imagination everyone should be able to enjoy it. Since we don't actually know what it was like to live back in 10,000 bc, it shouldn't be that difficult to watch. AS far as we know, the scientists and archaeologists could be all wrong with their dating and Egyptians could have used mammoths to build the pyramids. Anyway, the movie had a perfect ending the the guy getting the girl, the bad guys being killed in an awesome way, and the tribes becoming united.