10,000 B.C. Movie Review

Here's the first day first show review for the movie :

I probably saw the trailer for the movie in Dec'2007 and had my mind set on watching it first day first show since then. I imagined a movie based in 10,000 B.C. with lots of fights and high quality graphics . The movie that I saw today was disappointing-to say the least.It's not even within a 1000 km's of what I imagined.The director went through LOTR, The Matrix, 300, Apocalypto Now and several other movies and decided to make one single film out of it.

The story starts with a civilization living in some snowy mountains.Oh well, actually the story starts with a narrator's voice which is so gloomy and bad that you'd soon start to feel that this is not the movie you imagined. Ok, so back to the story. This civilization has a nanny , like the Oracle from Matrix movies, who can see the future . See sees four legged demons coming to destroy the village, and when they really come, I thought here we go with the excitement. I wondered if next we'd see some real demons or probably even the saber tooth tigers shown on the posters for the movie. The excitement was short lived as soon you get to know that the demons are nothing , but normal men on horses . For almost half the movie you don't know why did they attack the civilization and took about 15 of the helpless people, including the heroes love, as prisoners.The only thing worth seeing in this movie comes in this first half when the men chase several mammoths.But then , that's it.

The middle of the movie shows you the chase by the hero to get his love back. The punch line for the movie says " It takes a Hero to change the world ". God knows which world the hero was trying to save , as through out the movie the only thing the hero seemed interested in was getting back his love. The middle portion does give you an ostrich type bird attacking the hero's group scene and all, but the director fails to provide any excitement. The widely publicized scene of the Saber toothed tiger with the hero was a damp squib as they don't fight but make friends. Even the animation for the tiger was very unreal and coming from the people who made Independence Day, this was a huge letdown. Then come s the interval and one feels that probably the director has the best hidden for the end.

The end shows you a scene straight out of LOTR finale. Only that it was no where as magnificent as the original. We do get to hear the bad guy finally who's almost 8 feet's tall and one gets the feeling that the end can be an interesting one. What happens in the end is as mediocre as the entire film. The Hero picks up his spear and launches it at the big baddy, the spear goes through the bad guy's body and the bad guy's dead. No fight, no special effects, just dead. It was at this point that I wanted to scream and shout and say why did the director choose those magnificent scenes for the trailers, why did he not portray what the movie actually was . Probably like me, he too never understood what the movie was actually for!

While coming out of the theater, one of my friends said it'd be nice to see a scary movie type spoof of this movie, and I just wondered if this wasn't already a spoof movie on LOTR, Matrix, 300 and others. Better watch the trailers 20 times, you'd still feel happier!