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Friday, March 14, 2008 Philadelphia Tribune
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MOVIE THEATER
LISTINGS
AMC Granite Run 8
(610) 891-6440
1067 W. Baltimore Pike
AMC Orleans 8
(215) 722-4262
Cottman and Bustleton
aves.
AMC Woodhaven 10
(215) 244-1200
Woodhaven Rd. and I-95
Bala Theater
(610) 668-4695
157 Bala Ave.
AMC Franklin Mills 14
(215) 281-2750
Franklin Mills Mall
Ritz at the Bourse
(215) 925-7900
Second and Chestnut Sts.
Ritz 5
(215) 925-7900
214 Walnut St.
Roxy Theater
(215) 923-6699
2023 Sansom St.
Tuttleman Omniverse
Theatre
Franklin Institute, 20th St.
and the Pkwy.
(215) 448-1200
UA Cheltenham Square
(215) 884-6222
Cheltenham Ave. and
Washington Lane
UA King of Prussia
IMAX Theatre
Mall Blvd.
(610) 265-IMAX
UA Main Street 6
(215) 482-6230
3720 Main St., Manayunk
UA Riverview Stadium 17
(215) 755-2219
Columbus Blvd.
and Reed St.
UA 69th Street
(610) 734-0202
53 S. 69th St.
“10,000 BC” — A mix of
vast CGI spectacle and
small, silly moments, this
prehistoric saga is an epic in
name only. The latest mindnumbing
extravaganza from
director Roland Emmerich
(“Independence Day,” ‘‘The
Day After Tomorrow”) feels
more like a video game in
film form. Our dreadlocked,
dirt-smudged hero, D’Leh
(Steven Strait), must protect
his Yagahl people from a
variety of foes, including
woolly mammoths, marauders
on horseback, angry
ostrich-looking things and
an enormous saber-toothed
tiger. He also must rescue
the love of his life, the mystical
Evolet (Camilla Belle,
looking weirdly like Lindsay
Lohan being hounded by
paparazzi), from slave
raiders. The script from
Emmerich and Harald
Kloser (who also wrote the
overbearing score) takes
D’Leh and his fellow tribesmen
(Cliff Curtis, Nathanael
Baring, Mo Zainal) from one
level to the next without
building much momentum;
the whole endeavor is actually
quite a bore, leading up
to the overblown, climactic
showdown in the midst of
some half-built pyramids.
Some of the wide shots are
dazzling (the film was shot in
New Zealand, South Africa
and Namibia) and there are
a couple of thrilling moments
here and there (the mammoth
stampede, for example).
But this is otherwise a
slice of history you’re likely
to forget. PG-13 for
sequences of intense action
and violence. 109 min. One
and a half stars out of four.
– Christy Lemire
“The Bank Job” — This is a
solid, no-nonsense heist
thriller, yet one that ultimately
fails to distinguish itself
from the many others of the
Movie Capsules
Steven Straight portraying D’Leh, is threatened by a saber-tooth tiger in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and
Legendary Pictures’ epic adventure “10,000 B.C.” — AP PHOTO/WARNER BROS. PICTURES
genre. It has none of the cinematic
pyrotechnics of a
Guy Ritchie picture, but it
also lacks the stylish cool of
a “Sexy Beast,” for example.
Australian director Roger
Donaldson (“The Recruit,”
‘‘Thirteen Days”), working
from a script by British veterans
Dick Clement and Ian
La Frenais, has crafted a
respectable mix of fact and
fiction inspired by the 1971
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