Reviews

I went into this movie with somewhat moderate expectations. I wasn't expecting something absolutely incredible, but I was expecting something with some decent action and excitement.

10,000 BC was a waste of my time and not worth the watch. Such a huge budget and such a huge waste. The problem with the movie early on was that it tried to tell this big epic story that I won't go into, because I simply didn't care about it. It just tries SO HARD to tell this story and it really really frustrated me, because the whole time I was just waiting for some action to happen. But when the action did finally roll around, I was left completely underwhelmed because all the pointless dialog and all those tribesmen wondering around put me off. I didn't care anymore, I just wanted the damn movie to end! There just wasn't enough action, and what action there was, was done poorly. To compensate for the lack of action, I was at least hoping for some sex or a nude scene from the girl. But no, it was a PG movie so we got none of that.

There was a sabretooth cat that appeared in the movie. Cool! But it didn't do anything! Could have at least made it kill something, anything. I didn't pay to watch a sabretooth cat walking around and showing off it's special effects. What a waste.

This is a movie that abuses it's special effects budget. Going through all that time and effort to give us cool CGI mammoths, pyramids and sceneries. But behind it all, a very crap movie.

Thumbs up to Cliff Curtis who was the standout performer here. 10,000 BC didn't deserve him.

Quite possibly one of Van Damme's worst. I don't know what the motivation behind this movie was. The idea was completely unoriginal and poorly executed. We already had a train under siege by terrorists in Under Siege 2, but Derailed doesn't offer us anything new. The special effects were absolutely woeful. The train effects seriously looked like a toy models, especially when it was tipping over at high speeds. The green screen shots were soooo obviously green screen, you'd expect much better for 2002.

Van Damme really shows his age here in the martial arts fight scenes. Very slow sluggish movements, not like the young slick guy we saw in Bloodsport. There is just nothing exciting about fighting inside a narrow train, there simply wasn't any room to fight! They had to resort to wrestling on the ground where Van Damme shows off some of his arm and leg locks... well dam I might as well just watch some WWE wrestling for that.

The way Van Damme's family get onboard the train was a real distraction from the storyline to create some much unneeded drama. The way his daughter got infected by that bio-nuclear radiation, or the way his son fights the bad guys to thinking that he fell off the train felt like some deliberate cheesy attempts to turn this action flick to a family drama, it's not needed!

Some good things do save this movie from being god awful. Laura Harring was dam hot here, especially the scene where she changes her clothes. The best scene of the movie I'd say would have to be when Van Damme's wife and family catches him with his pants down on the train in the same room with Laura Harring.

This is movie is only worth seeing for the gorgeous Laura Harring!!!

This movie was awful. It starts off slow and takes far too long to get to the action. Everything up to that point where Bruce Banner transforms to the Hulk was incredibly boring. Far too many drawn out scenes of talking. Just yabber yabber yabber. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for talking. But not this much. About 10-15mins into the movie, we already get the idea. Yeah yeah, it's Bruce Banner. Mad scientist. Good looking girl in there. Father is a big army boy, whatever. So lets get to the action! No, more and more pointless talking. It's just shoved in your face, teasing you for the time wasted.

There simply wasn't enough action. People are paying money to watch the Hulk smash stuff. SMASH!!!

The best part of the movie was when the Hulk fights the 3 mutant dogs. And when he rips apart the tank. Really that was all the good stuff. Everything outside of those 2 moments were super boring. The bit where he jumps between the mountains, well that was sort of silly.

I'm just glad I didn't see this in cinemas.

SPOILER ALERT

After what I thought were mediocre outings for the first 2 X-Men movies, I went into this with somewhat high expectations. I was disappointed.

I think 2 things are required to make a good superhero comic book to movie adaption.

1. Good acting likewise with all other movies 2. Great action to showcase their super powers

OK well I think the acting was fine, not that it mattered anyway. Patrick Stuart as usual, excellent. A shame he had to die though. X-Men 3 failed in the action department when it mattered: the end. The end was were it really mattered, because I thought almost all of the movie was mediocre up to that point. And if there was a good ending, that'll be more than enough to make up for it.

What do we get instead? About 50 raving mutant lunatics running to their demise against the humans armed with anti-mutant guns (the new weapon that the humans developed to instantly remove mutant powers). That didn't make sense at all. Were they really that stupid? The mutant's powers were pathetic and they didn't put up a fight at all. Silly scene.

Iceman and Pyro squaring off. It seems these 2 guys hated each other, so I expected a big fight. I didn't get that. We got Pyro shooting his fire at Iceman. Iceman shooting his ice at Pyro. Pyro is winning... Iceman weakening. Iceman steps it up another gear and overpowers Pyro to win... woodeedoo. At first sight that scene would have looked cool. But if you step back and have a think about, really it was cheap and unoriginal, tied in with expensive special effects to make it look cool. Nah, not cool at all. Iceman big let down.

I think that was the movie's biggest problem. We never really get to see the mutants fight each other with their mutant powers properly. I mean, they do use their powers, but it's just too underwhelming! You don't need flashy special effects to make it happen. Look at the old Superman movies, see what I mean?!

Star of the movie. Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.

I suspect a 4th X-Men movie after seeing Magneto move that chess piece slightly at the end. If that is true, it'll have to be far far far better than this!!!