"10,000 B.C." **1/2 (out of four): Writer/Director/Producer Roland Emmerich's latest big budget extravaganza is here. 12,000 years in the making but was it worth the wait?

With the future picked clean of ideas, writer/director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) takes a step backward… way backward to a time when little recorded history exists (convenient because it makes "historical accuracy" less of an issue) with 10,000 B.C. It might have been nice if he had played fair with geography though (exactly which snowy peaks are a few days hike from the arid Egyptian desert anyway?) and perhaps respected evolutionary zoology (I don't recall seeing over sized man-eating lizard-like ostriches in the nature books). But, hey an artist is allowed to take some liberties, after all, and we can always blame global warming.

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