10,000 BC
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: March 7, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
8
Negative:
17
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60
EmpireAngie Errigo
The mammoths aren’t all that is wild and woolly in this innocent, old-fashioned, amusingly self-important, entertainingly mad, rip-snorting throwback to vintage Saturday matinee fare, with all the swell set piece thrills state-of-the-art technology can throw at it. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
The big, climactic fight, complete with an epic snuffleupagus rampage, is decent action-movie fun. And as a history lesson, 10,000 BC has its value. It explains just how we came to be the tolerant, peace-loving farmers we are today, and why the pyramids were never finished. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
This is the kind of movie where a character can't just say "the fire's not out yet," they have to say "the fire still lives in these stones." It made me yearn to see "Caveman" again. At least that was INTENTIONALLY funny. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Essentially a rip-off of "Apocalypto" for audience members too young or squeamish to endure graphic human sacrifice and jaguar face-eating. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyLuke Y. Thompson
Director Roland Emmerich (Godzilla, Independence Day) knows his money shots: any time he throws some mastodons or giant dodos on the screen for a little beast-battlin’ action, he has our attention. But his lack of skill with actors really shows during the long moments of downtime in-between. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
"The Day After Tomorrow" was kind of stupidly fun, and 10,000 B.C. might be too, if it weren't so stupidly dull. Read full review
40
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Conventional where it should be bold and mild where it should be wild, 10,000 BC reps a missed opportunity to present an imaginative vision of a prehistoric moment. Read full review
40
Film ThreatFelix Vasques Jr.
What chaps my hide more is that I've seen 10,000 BC. I've seen it three times in the last year and a half. Except in the one that I saw, it centered instead on Mayans, was mostly historically accurate, and was called "Apocalypto." Read full review
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