10,000 B.C.

This film gets terrible reviews from all angles and it's easy to see why, although I believe some of the criticism is unfair in it's approach. For example, when our rag tag team of mountain folk cross the desert and find a people harnessing wooly mammoths to build pyramids, you shouldn't complain that it's historically inaccurate, you should realise that the film is a work of fantasy fiction.

Don't criticise it for portraying an unrealistic placement of tundra-dwelling behemoths on a continent they never inhabited, alongside an apparently Ancient Egyptian civilisation pottering around in the sand seven thousand years too early.

Instead, criticise it for its awful script, its pedestrian acting, its cheesy narration from Omar Sharif or its feeble story. Criticise it for its schoolboy narrative, its patronizing prejudices and its useless cast. There's so much more wrong about this film than it's inclusion of scientific and historical flaws.

It's definitely one to miss, but let's at least be fair and agree that this is because they made a terrible mess of an appealing idea. Let's admit we like the concept of returning to a theme that cinema has left alone for decades, with the hope of seeing modern techniques breath new life into the genre.

Let's just admit that the reason this film fails is because the people who made it screwed it all up. Not because there weren't many giant, man-eating, dodo-like predators knocking around in Ancient Egypt.

10,000 B.C.