The concept of a fantasy-action movie with cavemen in a prehistorical world full of ice age beasts seemed pretty cool to me.
I was hoping this would be my kind of movie. I tend to like movies that a lot of other people seem to hate. I don't scoff at CGI effects-driven spectacle kind of movies, like a lot of snobby critics.
And I couldn't care less about historical accuracy either. This is essentially a fantasy movie, barely rooted in reality, so people complaining about how it's not real are wasting their time.
The thing that doesn't work for me here are the dull characters, particularly the main caveman guy and his girlfriend. The plot revolves around them and yet they barely have much personality beyond the guy being just a very simple determined hero, with nothing more to him, and the girl simply being wide-eyed and scared almost the whole time. If they were a little more interesting, this movie could have been good.
For a better, proto-civilization era fantasy epic, watch Conan the Barbarian, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger instead. There's quite a few similarities between the plots and settings of 10000 BC and Conan, but Conan did everything better.
I was hoping this would be my kind of movie. I tend to like movies that a lot of other people seem to hate. I don't scoff at CGI effects-driven spectacle kind of movies, like a lot of snobby critics.
And I couldn't care less about historical accuracy either. This is essentially a fantasy movie, barely rooted in reality, so people complaining about how it's not real are wasting their time.
The thing that doesn't work for me here are the dull characters, particularly the main caveman guy and his girlfriend. The plot revolves around them and yet they barely have much personality beyond the guy being just a very simple determined hero, with nothing more to him, and the girl simply being wide-eyed and scared almost the whole time. If they were a little more interesting, this movie could have been good.
For a better, proto-civilization era fantasy epic, watch Conan the Barbarian, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger instead. There's quite a few similarities between the plots and settings of 10000 BC and Conan, but Conan did everything better.