Oh all right then, Roland! I guess you can cobble together montages (or indeed editing room clippings) from "Quest For Fire", "Jurassic Park" and "Stargate" and hope to arrive at a sort of proto-version of "Apocalypto", but as "10 000 B.C." shows, that doesn't mean it's a good idea! Emmerich is capable of producing much better fare than this lame tale of a prehistoric hunter's epic journey to save his loved one, and maybe his people too in the process. It's hard to believe fairly decent movies like "Independence Day", "Thirteenth Floor" and "Godzilla" were made by the same director.
Weighed down by wooden performances and make-up that raises far too many questions, the leads inspire very little interest. But then again, when "Whale Rider" alumnus Cliff Curtis has to be saddled with a character name like "Tic'Tic", you really have to wonder if everyone wasn't just phoning it it.
One or two interesting touches are present in the narrative, but the abiding sense is that the whole thing feels like a stretch. This story has more plot holes than a mole-ridden cabbage patch.
Weighed down by wooden performances and make-up that raises far too many questions, the leads inspire very little interest. But then again, when "Whale Rider" alumnus Cliff Curtis has to be saddled with a character name like "Tic'Tic", you really have to wonder if everyone wasn't just phoning it it.
One or two interesting touches are present in the narrative, but the abiding sense is that the whole thing feels like a stretch. This story has more plot holes than a mole-ridden cabbage patch.