10,000 B.C. Review

Grade: D

With the hype that surrounded 10,000 B.C., you would think that there would be more historical continuity within its "epic" story.

The story begins with a tribe of cavemen/early homo erectus - the audience is never really able to tell what the character design is going for with several scenes where it seems the actors have prosthetic brows attached to them - hunting the great wooly mammoth. The first man to kill the bull mammoth wins the companionship of the lovely, blue-eyed Evolet.

But hold on, fellas. With this girl there are some major strings attached: earning the White Spear of leadership, fulfilling a prophecy to save the entire non-civilized world - just little things like that.

The subject of this prophecy is the tribe's very own village outcast: D'Leh. He is outcast by the tribe due to his father's apparent abandonment of the tribe when D'Leh was a younger.

After D'Leh claims his bride the village is attacked by the "four-legged demons" (AKA big Egyptians on horses), that were prophesied to attack the village on the day of the "last hunt." Failing to protect his new bride and the others within the tribe D'Leh and his surrogate father Tic-Tic begin the journey to the end of the earth to find his beloved and the rest of the tribesman.

The landscapes traveled through the world look something like a level out of a game of Halo. Traveling from the snow-covered mountains of the Neolithic men's homeland to the other side of the mountains where bamboo forests - and giant ostriches - grow wild. From there they journey another day or two and reach a barren desert and the Nile River.

The historical inaccuracies are laughable within the picture - although with this style of movie it is not intended to be accurate. According to the story the Great Pyramids of Giza were built in 10,000 B.C. Giant sail boats that did not re quire oars moved faster down the Nile.

With a running time of 109 mins B.C. is a very evenly paced and gives you all you need to see without running too long.