10,000 BC a Mammoth Disappointment
Over the weekend, I finally got a chance to watch 10,000 BC on DVD. I had hoped to watch it in the theater but as it turns out it’s probably just as well that I didn’t as I would have been disappointed even more.
Either movies are coming out on DVD faster these days (which isn’t all bad sometimes) or 10,000 BC was meant to be primarily a ’straight to DVD’ type of movie. The general theatrical release date was in March of 2008.
The basic synopsis of 10,000 BC:
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 10000 BC, a tale of the first hero. That hero is young hunter D’Leh (Steven Strait) who sets out on a trek to rescue his kidnapped beloved (Camilla Belle) and fulfill his prophetic destiny. He’ll face a saber-toothed tiger, cross uncharted realms, form an army and uncover an advanced but corrupt lost early Egyptian civilization. There he will lead a fight for liberation and become the champion of the time when legend began.
My thoughts and hopes:
I had high hopes for 10,000 BC as it looked interesting and Roland Emmerich directed it. Emmerich did Independence Day and Stargate, both of which I highly enjoyed. And it’s not often that one gets to see woolly mammoths stampeding across the screen. Even that part though, I felt short changed. I watched this movie on a large screen TV but still, there was something lacking in that scene. And actually, that’s my whole complaint with this movie actually – it was lacking.
10,000 BC was an okay movie but in my mind, not a great movie. It lacked in spectacular, it lacked in great action and it lacked in story line. Mind you, story lines seem to be on the pretty thin side for most movies anyway. It was a good movie to rent for an evening. The woolly mammoths looked cool but I think the movie itself could have been so much better.
Let’s hope that 2012, (another Emmerich film) which is currently in production and due out in 2009 will be a better movie than 10,000 BC.
