I'm a fan of Roland Emmerich, and have copies of Independence Day, 2012, Day after Tomorrow and. Star Gate. He's a great visualist and very inventive. His plots are often (okay, usually) ridiculous, but that's alright with me. I'm there for what he shows me in his weird movie dreams.
I recently watched Midway and was impressed with that as well. Then I saw a copy of this movie in the used bin and grabbed it, I figured it had to be worth at least a watch. Nope.
I couldn't finish it. I was hitting the time check on my DVD remote after 20 minutes and after 40, I just bailed and put something else on.
I give it three stars because I didn't watch it all and there's a possibility that there was an ultimate payoff (although none of the other reviews suggest that), and because most of the scenery shots are gorgeous. In addition, the mastodon stampede is a fun few minutes, and the saber tooth tiger is kind of, sort of scary, a bit, not much. There are some huge ostrich type dinosaurish birds who show up and again, the film is alive while they are running around, but that ends too and then it's back to the wooden characters who are supposed to be ten thousand years old, but who talk with an assortment of modern accents using modern language. And the characters just do not engage you. Am I supposed to relate to them? Be fascinated by them? He could have got away with the silliness of thinking neanderthals or whatever they were supposed to be looked like Hollywood actors if he made me care about them, but I didn't and so you just look at the stupid makeup and the mugging actors with perfect teeth and skin and reach for the remote and hit the "eject" button..
In the end I had one question, why did he make this movie? Why? What was the point?
I recently watched Midway and was impressed with that as well. Then I saw a copy of this movie in the used bin and grabbed it, I figured it had to be worth at least a watch. Nope.
I couldn't finish it. I was hitting the time check on my DVD remote after 20 minutes and after 40, I just bailed and put something else on.
I give it three stars because I didn't watch it all and there's a possibility that there was an ultimate payoff (although none of the other reviews suggest that), and because most of the scenery shots are gorgeous. In addition, the mastodon stampede is a fun few minutes, and the saber tooth tiger is kind of, sort of scary, a bit, not much. There are some huge ostrich type dinosaurish birds who show up and again, the film is alive while they are running around, but that ends too and then it's back to the wooden characters who are supposed to be ten thousand years old, but who talk with an assortment of modern accents using modern language. And the characters just do not engage you. Am I supposed to relate to them? Be fascinated by them? He could have got away with the silliness of thinking neanderthals or whatever they were supposed to be looked like Hollywood actors if he made me care about them, but I didn't and so you just look at the stupid makeup and the mugging actors with perfect teeth and skin and reach for the remote and hit the "eject" button..
In the end I had one question, why did he make this movie? Why? What was the point?