Going into a Roland Emmerich movie you expect a decent action movie, given his antecedents. The German-American filmmaker pulled off pretty decent flicks such as Independence Day (1996), The Thirteenth Floor (1999, and yes, I intentionally left out Godzilla), The Patriot (2000) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004). So you have a strong genre director/writer/producer and a great idea, anything should turn out ok, right?

The "movie" follows a young mammoth hunter, D'Leh (Steven Strait), as he tries to save his girlfriend Evolet (Camilla Belle) from horse-riding raiders. Eventually he and his buddies manage to track the bad guys down to a big pagan city.

Well, wrong. This is a good example of how the Hollywood machine can take in good stuff and produce trash at the other end. Let's see, what's really uninspired about 10,000 B.C. ... first of all, the annoying story-teller (sorry Sharif). The silly (read: stupid) plot. The pseudo-English that actors speak. The innumerable hairy elephants that play mammoth roles. Pyramids, ships, cities, domesticated horses in 10,000 B.C., and the list goes on.

At the end of the 109 mins, if you managed to stay on your seat hoping things will get better, one can only wonder whether this was meant to be an Apocalypto copycat with Neanderthals (for Neanderthals?). Wait, Neanderthals were gone by 10,000 B.C... nevermind.

Viewers, you have been warned!