Let’s face it, filmmakers have been taking artistic license with historical events since, well, a week and a bit before the dawn of time. Director Roland Emmerich though, takes historical manipulation to a much higher plane. It wouldn’t have been so bad if he titled this project ‘incredible stuff that happened in the past... but not all at once’; sure it would have been tricky getting it all on the poster, but to actually go with a title that contains a fairly accurately point in time is just opening your self up to criticism. So...

It’s difficult to know where to begin, but pyramids – really? The answer of course is no. No, no, no. However, to add salt into these pointy-topped wounds, Emmerich decides that these pyramids were built with the help of... woolly mammoths. Why he didn’t go the whole historical hog and have giant Labradoodles helping out is just a mystery.

The plot of the film – what there is of it, also appears eerily similar to Mel Gibson’s Apocalpyto; a tribe come along, kidnap members of another tribe, then run off with them to some pyramids, where they have human sacrifices and stuff. Slightly annoyed that they’ve taken his love interest, our hero goes after them. Mel is probably kicking him self silly with all the attention to detail he put into his film; he even got them to all to speak some kind of made up language. If only he’d taken a page from The History Of The World According To R Emmerich, he would have realised that even then everyone spoke English - yes even the woolly mammoths under their breaths.

Sure, most people know what to expect when they sit in front of an Emmerich film, and historical accuracy isn’t high up on the list. However, in turns of spectacle, 10,000 BC seems a little dated.

Even more worrying is that one of Emmerich’s future projects is a remake of the classic Fantastic Voyage – so if anyone can get those Labradoodles into the blood stream, it’ll be Roland.