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Go for it, not a bad film

Film : 10,000 B.C. ( English)

Director: Roland Emmerich

Dream merchants dabble in history and fall short. Director Roland Emmerich’s film seeks to talk of the age of transition but the way things devolve the film becomes just a nice fantasy.

The film is ostensibly based in the Mesolithic Age when man was evolving in the struggle with other inhabitants of this world. Centred around the Black Sea, human beings were able to make better, sharper weapons and tools, domesticating certain animal s and starting on food storage. A beautiful girl called Evolet – Camilla Bella – is sought by a young hunter D’Leh. All is well, but too well for the story to proceed. So the director throws in a kidnap drama with the lady being taken away by warlords who raid her village. The search for the girl leads the guy to newer places. And there unfolds before him a new world, another civilization beyond the shores of their tried and tested lands. Good emotion, reasonable performances and a smooth pace mean “10,000 B.C.” It’s the kind of film that falls short of the good without being in the bracket of bad.

ZIYA US SALAM

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