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Movie Review of 10,000 B.C. (2008) [PG-13] 109 minutes
WIP™ Scale: $13.75
Where Viewed: United Artists Denver Pavilions Stadium 15, Denver, CO
When Seen: 8 March 2008
Time: 5:10 pm
DVD Release Date: 24 June 2008 (click date to purchase or pre-order)
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Directed by: Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow)
Screenplay by: Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow) • Harald Kloser (debut)
Featured Cast (Where You Might Remember Him/Her From):
Steven Strait (The Covenant) • Camilla Belle (When A Stranger Calls) • Cliff Curtis (Live Free or Die Hard) • Joel Virgel (The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas) • Affif Ben Badra (Danny the Dog) • Mo Zinal (Young Alexander the Great) • Nathanael Baring (debut) • Mona Hammond (Kinky Boots) • Marco Khan (One Night with You) • Reece Ritchie ("The Bill") • Joel Fry (Sound) • Omar Sharif (One Night with the King)
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With fine touches such as narration by the legendary Academy Award®-winning Omar Sharif and realistic, not overdone, CGI effects, Roland Emmerich delivers an enviable action adventure film with more power, heart, and imagination than Troy, Alexander, and Apocalypto all rolled into one. Featuring a lower profile cast than the aforementioned films (with the exception of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto), 10,000 B.C. literally rampages to life as Roland Emmerich's story of a small tribe of mammoth hunters who lose members to a war-like militia that captures slaves to toil in the construction of their god-like leader's gigantic heavenly pyramids. One member of the tribe, D'Leh (Steven Strait) rises up as the prophesied leader of not only his tribe but of all of Africa as he travels to rescue his kidnapped, life-long love, Evolet (Camilla Belle)—the blue-eyed beauty believed to be the future wife of his tribe's next leader. The story is timeless and while not terribly original sticks to the threads that tangled to make the greatest of Homer's legendary tales. While young, unseasoned, and brash, the young D'Leh has a purity to his heart and all of the makings of the billed "first hero". Along the way, he will battle the saber-toothed tiger and a gigantic army of slave warriors and others true to their emperor whom they believe to be a true deity. He does so with the aid of his disloyal and deserting father's best friend, Tic'Tic (Cliff Curtis) and several volunteers that form his traveling party. Together they cross perilous terrain and survive wicked elements until they arrive in the heart of North Africa the trail of their kidnapped loved ones growing colder by the day.
With exciting and courageous battles, the film captures the imagination and truly brings a glimpse into the an ancient time and what life on earth might then have been. To be successful, the film requires a convincing performance from the somewhat still undiscovered, Steven Strait whose chiseled good looks give him the necessary appearance of his heroic character, but it is his voice and manner that promote him to full status. He sounds convincing; and, therefore, he is. Cliff Curtis, in an unusual role for him, carries quite a burden as well as he must hold a difficult secret from D'Leh's past from him and reveal it in such a ways as to motivate the future hero rather than deflate him. Both men do well in making the picture work, but both pale a bit next to the beauty and stunning elegance of Camilla Belle's brilliant blue eyes.
great epic story that will both astonish and endear itself in the same way that Lawrence of Arabia did for generations past.
Her character, Evolet, might well be the most beautiful woman on the planet, and her beguiling beauty a lethal weapon against all suitors. Camilla Belle takes her on and endows her with the same quite yet luminous strength she gave to her recent characters in
The Quietand
When A Stranger Calls only this time she was bigger and even more important. The other main characters in the film of note were all of the CGI animals. Mr. Emmerich has Mr. Spielberg and Jurassic Park to thank for his CGI animals that were simply stunning.
Overall, 10,000 B.C. really delivers on all technical levels, but it is really the raw story, not new, but timeless and barely nostalgic that elevates the film into the category of great epic story that will both astonish and endear itself in the same way that Lawrence of Arabia did for generations past.
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Cast Members
Steven Strait • Camilla Belle • Cliff Curtis
Joel Virgel • Affif Ben Badra • Mo Zinal
Nathanael Baring • Mona Hammond • Marco Khan
Reece Ritchie • Omar Sharif
Director
Roland Emmerich
Writers
Roland Emmerich • Harald Kloser
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10,000 B.C. (2008) [max of 150 words]
With brilliant effects and a timeless heroic adventure story, writer / director Roland Emmerich's 10,000 B.C. starring Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, with narration by Omar Sharif rampages onto the screen with the same zeal as the CGI mammoths that populate this ancient world. Overall, 10,000 B.C. really delivers on all technical levels, but it is really the raw story, not new, but timeless and barely nostalgic that elevates the film into the category of great epic story that will both astonish and endear itself in the same way that Lawrence of Arabia did for generations past.
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