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10,000 BC (12)
INDEPENDENCE Day director Roland Emmerich returns with another fantastical tale relying heavily on state-of-the-art special effects.
Watching a herd of charging mammoths with hunters dodging between them makes you appreciate just how far we've come since Jurassic Park 15 years ago.
And, with Emmerich's regular collaborator, Ueli Steiger, on cinematography, a vast pyramid construction site is also wondrous to behold.
But the prehistoric story which holds it all together is unremittingly tedious, with Omar Sharif offering a cliched narration.
When a beauty called Evolet (Camilla Belle) is kidnapped, her blue eyes are the motivation for D'Leh (Sky High's Steven Straight) to keep his wits about him.
Joined by other tribes who have been attacked, he ends up leading an army against the mysterious warlords who have proved there exists a world far beyond what he could have imagined.
The history and geography might be ludicrously far-fetched, but the sabre-toothed tiger is a class act.
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