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10,000 B.C. reviewed

Jarrod Crump

Assistant Editor in Chief

 

     The movie 10,000 B.C. is about a young hunter part of a pre-historic tribe. The tribe lives in an area of cold bitter winter. The regular supply of Mammoths has not come to there area for a while, and the tribe is lacking on food. The witch-doctor woman foresees a prophecy that four legged demons will ransack their village and that one of their people will free the enslaved. A young man comes ahead as a good hunter, and even goes on to distant lands to free the enslaved people of the area and defeat the foreign invaders.

     Now, a lot of people have mixed feelings about this movie, and I am not an exception. First off I would like to say that the graphics were phenomenal. The mammoths looked completely real, and so did all the other pre-historic animals. The plot was indeed a bit predictable. But, to be honest, I can’t think of a movie that isn’t predictable. If Hollywood ever made a movie that didn’t end with the hero saving the day, Americans would be mad. I thought this movie was reasonably action packed, had a good story line, no matter how predictable it is, and is definitely worth seeing in the theaters just because of the graphics. I would not say that this is the movie of the year by any means, but I do feel it deserves a bit of recognition. I’d say that it’s marginal.

     So I’d say go see it if you think it looks good, but only if you like mammoths, or huge ostriches that can tear you limb from limb.