Production Year: 2008 - Action/Adventure - Director: Roland Emmerich - Original Language: English - Classification: TBA - Starring:Camilla Belle, Omar Sharif, Tim Barlow, Steven Strait, Cliff Curtis more
This will be a short review which is what this film deserves.
From the director of 'Independence Day' and 'The Day After Tomorrow' comes a film that is visually stunning.
The film starts with D'Leh as a young boy, when hunters return having found a young girl with blue eyes, Evolet The witch of the village predicts that soon Warlords will come and attack the village. She also forcasts that the man, who the blue eyed girl choses as her husband, will save the village.
Evolet is taken by the warlords and D'Leh sets off on a quest that will involve love, honour, spirits, adventure, death, redemption and salvation. Oh and along the way he will pick up an army.
The acting is not the best, but I suppose playing someone just above a caveman doesn't need Noel Coward.
The commentary that comes at intervals is accented and unneccessary. The story really is predictable and nothing new. The costumes of the bad guys are a bit 'mad max'.
However, The scale of the story is excellent and the action scenes are a great feast for the eyes. The creatures, mammoths, sabre tooth tigers etc, created by the CGI are spectacular.
Sadly, the ending is very predictable.
You WILL enjoy the film but you will only watch it the once.
Greg
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