10,000 B.C. was the movie of the night and what a movie it was. Never have I been taken by a plot so well thought out, action so intense, or a love story so moving.

Did you know, for example, that if you hunt woolly mammoths with spears and your tribe you also gain the abilities of sword fighting and kung fu? Did you also know that the many peoples roaming the earth in 10,000 B.C. are of indiscriminate ethnic origin and speak in many accents? Finally, did you know that when traveling the continents from the great steppes of Asia to the savannahs of Africa one can cross from the jungles of Mesopotamia into Africa with only one day's hard walk? Mesopotamia existed in modern day Iraq by the way, and you don't just find your way to Egypt in one day, but all the way into the depths of Africa. These are all things I didn't know and am now thankful the movie provided such incredible enlightenment.

The best part, perhaps my favorite part, is where the evil advanced civilization fueled by the blood of slaves and a corrupt dictator known as "The Almighty" is brought down. We realize there that advanced knowledge such as science, math, engineering, and agriculture are only gained at the expense of slave labor and coveted only by the weak, the mean, and the power hungry. We also learn that this civilization, set up as a precursor to the Egyptians and the Mesopotamians with their strange Pyramid/Ziggurat hybrids is run by a man of completely different ethnicity than all the other peoples of the movie. Thus far our heroes have been African or Asian (in all the possibilities those continents entail). But here, enslaving the peoples and lording over everyone is "The Almighty." And what is The Almighty you ask? Surprisingly, an old white man. I know, I was shocked too. I wonder what metaphor the writers are possibly trying to depict with such an image?

Oh, and I forgot another great message of this movie. If you find yourself in a pit with a saber-toothed tiger and rain is pouring in threatening to drown you both, you can free the tiger and it won't eat you. Grateful for your help it simply gives you a sniff and bounds away. Cause animals that are scared, wounded, and hungry never attack so long as you are obviously trying to help them.

But despite all of this I kind of liked this movie. It's really fun to watch and try to figure out where in the world they are, or how they got from the jungles of Asia to the savannahs of Africa in a day. It's also fun to argue with friends over which civilizations formed first and when. Then you get to pick out all the different hints of old civilizations and try to place what clothes, attitudes, or technology alludes to which one. It's kind of like a geek's wet dream. This movie could be an example of what happens when you base your facts off Wikipedia...

But for all it's flaws it gave us reasonably hot guys (in one case one really hot guy) running around in relatively little clothing saving people and fighting for freedom and all that. That makes up for a lot in my opinion.

And spending their lives as hunters taught them kung fu. Who doesn't love kung fu?