I hope you like the movies that rely heavily on computer-generated effects and animation in order to recreate the lost worlds of our past. Also, I hope that you don’t care too much about the prehistorical events of our world and the lost civilization.

If you fall in one of these two categories, then you will enjoy 10,000 B.C., the latest effort of Roland Emmerich to tell a story about love, rage and other primal instincts during the dawn of humankind.

But in case you are not ready to admit that the woolly mammoths have lived just around the corner from the pyramids, which were built about 7,000 years earlier than we thought, than maybe you should skip this movie and go see something else.

The biggest flaw of 10,000 BC, besides its geographical and historical inaccuracies, is the plot. The plot goes something like this: the good boy falls in love with the beautiful girl, the bad guys kidnap her. The good boy should now venture into unknown territories to find and rescue her. One epic battle later, the good guy and the beautiful girl are back are ready to start a new civilization. Pretty basic isn’t it?

“Only time can teach us what is truth and what is legend” says the narrator voice as 10,000 B.C. starts rolling and this is the moment when we know that Roland Emmerich, who co-scripted the movie together with Harald Kloser will abandon any attempt to not mess with history and geography as we know it.

D'Leh (pronounced Delay), played by Steven Strait is just a happy woolly mammoth hunter, living in a land of ice and snow, who is in love with the blue-eyed girl Evolet (Camilla Belle), who was adopted by his tribe as a child. But the tribe rules (it seems like it never is too early for rules and politics) are the main obstacle in the way of their love.

But it won’t take long until an ancient prophecy made by the tribe’s shaman will come to solve the lovers’ problem. “The four legged demons”, apparently another civilization that is more evolved than D’Leh’s tribe, comes to pillage and kidnap their encampment made from mammoth’s bones.

D’Leh escapes, but his love, Evolet, will be taken far and away by the warlords, who seem to know a lot of stuff for a civilization that lived 10,000 years ago. They have horses (four legged demons, you know?), metal weapons, ships and they are using kidnapped people as slaves to build pyramids. (I’ve warned you!).

However, in the next sixty minutes of the movie D’Leah, together with Tic’Tic (Cliff Curtis) will enroll in a rescue mission the save the people and Evolet.

But D’Leah’s journey through the 10,000 years old world (ours?) fails to be anything but annoying. He will travel through the jungle and the desert and he will fight against unbelievable creatures (that seem to exist only in the screenwriter’s imagination), like the killer chickens and a sabre-toothed tiger, who seems to have landed in 10,000 B.C right from The Ice Age.

Along the way, other tribes, like Naku, decide to join him in the quest to save Evolet and to escape from the slavery imposed by the above-mentioned proto-Egyptian civilization that is run by an effete priestly class with long fingernails. 

As you can imagine, D’Leah will defeat the bad guys, will eradicate the slavery and he will find and rescue his beloved Evolet.

Overall, the movie is fun to watch, and when I say “fun” I don’t mean it as a compliment. There are some involuntarily funny moments and I was wondering how soon the crew behind “Meet The Spartans” will start filming a new parody inspired from 10,000 B.C.  It would be such an easy job.  

Although it aims to rival with movies such as “Apocalypto” or “300”, 10,000 B.C is just a perfect example that great visuals are not enough to save a poor-written story. Why should we care about D’Leah and Evolet? The movie fails to give a reasonable explanation why are they so important for us, the viewers who have spent one hour and a half to watch the movie.

10,000 B.C. is the perfect example that stunning visuals and the best CGI techniques won’t save a movie from being boring as hell, even if it is signed by the same man who gave us “The Day After Tomorrow” and “Independence Day”.