10,000 BC
2008
*½
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel, Affif Ben Badra, Mo Zinal, Nathanael Baring, Mona Hammond
In 10,000 BC, evil men on horses come over the Ural mountains to take Yagahli men, women and children as slaves. This group includes Evolet, the love interest of mammoth hunter D'Leh, who goes after the captors with a few other men. The pursuit takes them over the snowy mountains, through the jungle and across the burning desert to ancient Egypt in what seems like two days. Roland Emmerich's humourless but incredibly silly special effect spectacle takes great liberties not only with geography, but also with history and credibility. The plot, on the other hand, is lifted straight from Apocalypto. Emmerich employs varying qualities of CGI to create woolly mammoths, a sabre-toothed tiger, and nasty feathered beasts that look like gigantic dodos, but his human characters remain uninteresting throughout the dull adventure.
