just saw it tonight, it wasn't bad, story bit simplistic though, but given its 'mystery' air about the prehistoric times i thought it was good as an attempt to answer smoe questions of lost civilisations, and in a way they purposefully left some to imagination.
Like if a movie is made to say adapt "chariots of the gods" type book which the book is excellent however it would be fair to say translation would be a flop, so its not surprising to see what Chase said above. But for entertainment value, and if you can entertain some 'armchair anthropology study' you would find it was stimulating and fun, even some magical quality is throw in, just for to show how in the olden times when people actually DID came to believe and explained things in terms of magic. it all kind of boil down to how you take it, and how you want to elaborate what you percieve from the film. I liked it. It wasn't the best, but surely doubt its a potential to be the worst 10 movies, special effects, the way they take viewers with the travellers on a journey to rescue the eslaved villagers/hunters to me was damn good, well done. I think it had a good underlying messages like fate of civlisation, that comes and goes (the features was particularly educational) and yeah I have always pondered on that sort of thing, I would like to see some sort of story written up on a large scale mega-narrative on the 'story of the human race' but hmmmm little chance of successful story to be conjured up, except only one i can think of is the the old arthur C. clark film -2001 Space odyessy that made a good attempt to connect ape to man and space and machine.... but do it with civilisation and technology and society is quite another challenge
hmmm