Summary
Things start to get wonky with a prophecy concerning the arrival of the blue-eyed child who will bring life to her people. The child grows to be a young woman named Evolet (Camilla Belle of When a Stranger Calls), who is loved by a young hunter named D'Leh (The Covenant's Steven Strait).
D'Leh learns that the slaves are being used to build a huge, complex pyramid to honour an insanely decadent god who is served by albinos and eunuchs and plump, effete priests. At this point we are veering off toward the fevered fantasies of 2006's 300, which could be fun except nothing has really prepared us for this kind of lunacy. The sequences at the pyramids are sketchy and rushed, as are the dropped hints about the god's true origins.D'Leh, working with Nakudu (Joel Virgel), the leader of another group that has been decimated by slavers, summons an army of tribal peoples, who look like they've flown in from several different continents. Clearly, it's supposed to be inspiring how everyone comes together. (And I'm sure the fact that their leader D'Leh and his blue-eyed inspiration Evolet are the only proto-Europeans in sight is just a coincidence.)See the full content of this document
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Alison Gillmor / Movies
I was a kid in the 1970s, so my Saturday afternoon template for the prehistoric movie involves Raquel Welch in a furry push-up bra. The latest faux-epic from...See the full content of this document
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