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<a href="http://asdkjhuewr2.yourfreehosting.net/?">asdkjhuewr2</a> ... All of the ingredients are here for a solid, if routine, action epic, and, to be fair, the film does an adequate job of delivering said epic before getting increasingly silly towards the end. But that's the problem. When you have multimillion dollar special effects and the potential to watch man vs. prehistoric beast, "adequate" doesn't cut it. But that's all you get: adequate action sequences and adequate special effects. The Skull Island sequence from Peter Jackson's King Kong alone blows this movie out of the water, and it doesn't take almost two hours to slog through. (Too bad about the rest of the movie, eh? - Ed.) And for an "exotic" setting, 10,000 B.C. isn't all that exotic. A desert is still a desert, a jungle is still a jungle, and snow is still snow (even if you call it "white rain"). Nothing in this film really makes you feel like you're transported back in time. If anything, the attempt to fuse ancient Egyptian lore, tribal warfare, and mammoths towards the end of the film is more confusing than engaging. ... asdkjhuewr2

<a href="http://asdkjhuewr2.justfree.com/?">asdkjhuewr2</a> ... Which brings us to the silliness. At some point in the film, D'Leh and his wandering band discover a black African tribe. They, in turn, lead him to other tribes, which seem to cover everything from pygmies to Native Americans. They believe because of some prophecy (everybody in this movie has a prophecy) that he's the one they've been waiting for to lead them to victory. Frankly, it's a little depressing to think that even in a film set 12,000 years ago, the highly-trained dark-skinned warrior characters need to wait for a rookie light-skinned character to come along before they can do anything to help themselves. Secondly, the United Tribes of Benetton shtick feels forced and, for a film that's already left plausibility in the fridge way past the expiration date, totally impossible even if they were living on Pangaea. ... asdkjhuewr2