10,000 Clichés
- Title: 10,000 B.C.
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I’ve given all-around awesome German Roland Emmerich credit before for making kick ass blockbusters like, as the zillions of ads this weekend say, Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow; but his newest mega-budget effort 10,000 B.C. is proof that the guy isn’t infallible. His scripts have left something (a lot of something) to be desire; but he can usually make up for it with some expert action directing. So what happens when the he’s off his game?
You know how it goes. Your father ditches your pre-historic village one night, and the rest of the tribe treats you like shit for it. Sucks, right? Well, so it goes for our hero, the eloquently named D’Leh (Steven Strait). He does finally catch a break when he wins the woman of his dreams (Camilla Belle) by killing an animal, but then these asshole Mongol-Viking hybrids come along and all like kidnap her and most of the village.
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