10,000 B.C.

Theatrical Release Date: 2008 03 07 (USA)

UPC: 085391139676

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Violence]

Summary: A young outcast from a primitive tribe is forced to defend his people from a brutal onslaught in Independence Day director Roland Emmerich's fast-paced period adventure. Despite the fact that he is low man on the totem pole in his tribe of fearless hunters, a brave young boy (Steven Strait) longs to win the heart of a beautiful princess (Camilla Belle) who is well above his station in life. When an overwhelming horde of powerful invaders forces the hunters into slavery and abducts the princess, the once-aimless boy suddenly finds his destiny taking an unexpected turn. Now, if he has any hope of saving his tribe from certain extinction, this young boy will have to fight for the future to his dying breath. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Epic

Features: A Wild and Wooly Ride - bringing prehistory to vivid screen life from pyramids to period animals
Inspiring an Epic - how real history influenced story and design elements
Exciting alternate ending
Awesome additional scenes

10,000 B.C.

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 06/24/2008

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 109 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English

Derek Armstrong

The timing of 10,000 B.C. made it seem like a reaction to the success of Apocalypto, as though Mel Gibson's film made the world safe again for pre-Christian action epics with no bankable stars. But maybe it was just typical Roland Emmerich bombast: How can we fit woolly mammoths, saber tooth tigers and the great pyramids into the same movie? The answer is, you can't, not without seeming ridiculous -- and in this case, not in a good way. Sure, it's part of the strategy of Hollywood epics to showcase creatures and landscapes that the audience has never seen in digital form, but one gets the impression that's literally the only reason 10,000 B.C. exists. The filmmakers didn't just get lost along the way . . . they never had a story in the first place. The film snubs its nose at numerous logical stumbling blocks, but most glaringly, it disregards both of the following: whether the featured plot elements existed contemporaneously, or whether humans could walk -- in a matter of days, no less -- between temperatures and climates of diametrically opposed extremes. You could throw those concerns out if 10,000 B.C. had been carried off with a certain tongue-in-cheek style, but the whole thing is wooden and overly serious. Apocalypto actually did this film a disservice, when you consider that Gibson raised the bar for realism through his bold decision to shoot in the Mayan language. By contrast, the King's English spoken in 10,000 B.C., sounding more British than "caveman," is downright distracting. Even special effects junkies will want to stay away from this listless tale of an emerging tribal leader who ventures out to rescue a kidnapped maiden. Applying the very lowest standards for narrative storytelling doesn't help -- they'll still feel like their brain is the thing being kidnapped. ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide

Cast and Crew: David Dennis  Actor 
Roland Emmerich  Director 
Roland Emmerich  Producer 
Roland Emmerich  Screenwriter 
William Fay  Executive Producer 
Mark Gordon  Producer 
Thomas Karnowski  Executive Producer 
Harald Kloser  Executive Producer 
Harald Kloser  Composer (Music Score) 
Harald Kloser  Screenwriter 
Thomas Tull  Executive Producer 
Sarah Bradshaw  Executive Producer 
Michael Wimer  Producer 
Scott Mednick  Executive Producer 
Thomas Wander  Composer (Music Score) 
Steven Strait  Actor 
Camilla Belle  Actor 
Cliff Curtis  Actor 
Joel Virgel  Actor 
Ben Badra  Actor 
Mo Zainal  Actor 
Nathanael Baring  Actor 
Mona Hammond  Actor 
Marco Khan  Actor 
Reece Ritchie  Actor 
Joel Fry  Actor 
Omar Sharif  Actor 

Country: USA