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10,000 B.C. (2008)
Director: Roland Emmerich
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From Time Out Chicago
If Mel Gibson’s main interest in Apocalypto was staging a vivid tapir castration, this even dumber prehistoric epic means to show off Emmerich’s balls—metaphorically speaking. Simply put, the Independence Day director does not give a damn. He doesn’t care that there are few places on Earth where one can hike from snowy mountaintops to jungle to desert in a few days. He doesn’t care that even 12,000 years ago, a man couldn’t negotiate a deal with a saber-tooth tiger. He doesn’t care that even with the cultures unspecified, it’s not p.c. to show a dreadlocked white man (Strait) lecturing African tribesmen, who have a prophecy conveniently foretelling this messiah’s arrival. He doesn’t care that his giant ostriches appear to have been animated for a Sega. He doesn’t mind Omar Sharif’s bombastic narration. All he cares about is not being boring. On that level, he succeeds.Author: Ben Kenigsberg
Time Out Chicago Issue 159: March 13–19, 2008
Cast & crew
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgil, Affif Ben Badra, Mo Zinal full cast
Rated: PG-13
Duration: 109 mins
US Release: Mar 7 2008
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