It tries to be 300, Spartacus, and Apocalypto all rolled into one but the only thing really worth noting about BC is its impressive Planet Earth-style camerawork. Emmerich does manage to construct a beautiful world of tundras and deserts, of Xerxes-wannabe gods and stone paintings, of giant ostriches and fierce sabertooth tigers, who evidently speak to human beings. However, beyond the designs-- this film offers almost nothing of value.
The story itself is not completely implausible. It's just boring, consisting of a hunter whose girlfriend is kidnapped, essentially and his quest to rescue her. There is really no character development except that which allows him to fulfill the numerous prophecies narrated at the beginning of the movie.
The film is so boring and its audience so detached that Emmerich actually feels it necessary to cut back to the village prophet in nearly every scene for no purpose that I could see other than to show the audience how it should feel were this movie effectively scripted, directed or acted. Also, the "old mother" as she is called delivers a last minute plot contrivance that makes absolutely no sense but enables our obligatory happy ending. 10,000 BC is nice to look at, but not worth watching. Mel Gibson did everything better with Apocalypto.
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