10,000 B.C.

Release Date: March 7
Director: Roland Emmerich
Writers: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser
Cinematographer: Ueli Steiger
Starring: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis
Studio/Run Time: Warner Brothers, 109 mins.
10,000 B.C. takes place a long time ago in a galaxy that I think is supposed to be very, very near. But back then things were different. No one used contractions, for example. They just did not. And people were so tiny that every cat, vulture and pachyderm these Lilliputians came across was a giant, savage beast. Times were hard. Food was scarce. War would break out whenever “four-legged demons”—which were actually ancient Egyptian Viking Romans from India…on horseback—would steal your woman and take her back to their land. The only way to respond was to join forces with a good portion of the African diaspora to confront the devils and take her back. And free some slaves and stuff.
Good film editors have a rule of thumb: if a movie feels too long, sometimes cutting things out can make it seem even longer. If you remove the wrong parts of the story, you may lose the motivation for the action so that even the fast parts seem dull.