Sometimes I think that sweet CGI will overcome any plot or story problems that a movie may have. Occasionally, that is the case, but usually not. 10,000 B.C. epitomizes this phenomena. It has decent visual effects, but the story feels like it was written by a middle-schooler. So, there is this tribe of savage people living in some sort of snowy, mountain-top tundra land. For generations, they never leave the area until a bunch of their people get kidnapped by 'four-legged demons'. Then, the tribe's manly men follow the kidnappers, manage to easily cross the mountains, and all of a sudden are in the jungle getting attacked by huge birds, then just as quickly they stroll into the desert and meet African tribesman. Then they get to the pyramids...where there somehow are woolly mammoths. I guess that explains the miracle of how the Egyptians did it.
The ending was ripped straight out of Conan the Barbarian (Crom help me, I mentioned such a classic in the same breadth as this piece of crap).
Bottom line, CGI did nothing to redeem the slipshod research and dull pacing of this snoozer. Even watching it on Blu-Ray wasn't enough to make me feel like it wasn't a huge waste of time.
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