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Ignore the idiotic negative comments of the naysayers. This is a great film. It boldly creates a world unlike any we've seen before, with dedicated actors going well beyond the call of duty in portraying a life and death struggle for survival under the most harrowing conditions imaginable. Featuring Claude Agostini's splendid wide-screen cinematography of remote, rainswept landscapes and a rich score by Phillipe Sarde, this movie will take you on a compelling journey that, if nothing else, will clarify the routine creature comforts of our civilized world in a manner more direct than anything you might have previously experienced in a theater. Jean-Jacques Annaud and collaborators tell their tale with dramatic simplicity and virtually no dialogue, but the points made are powerful. Humanity survives, and will prevail despite our weaknesses and faults. Overall, a remarkable, life-affirming work.

This is an extremely overlooked film many people should learn about. First, it tells you a very complex story without a single line of dialog successfully.Second, the story is universal: Every civilization on earth can pick up this film and understand it, because it goes to the most basic, primitive issues of a species (mainly, survival). Third, it makes the beginning of man interesting. Fourth, it reminds us we were once as savage as any other animal on earth.Fifth, it's like no other movie you've seen before. That one I can guarantee you.

This story takes place in prehistoric time when three prehistoric tribesmen search for a new fire source.What a strange movie. Somehow it came my way off of a list of horror films. This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a horror film. But then, some folks like Mike Mayo think "The Wizard of Oz" can be seen as horror, so I guess it is open to debate.What we have is over 90 minutes of characters with no names who never speak -- at least not in any language we can recognize. And yet, it makes sense and has a real plot. This is a fun movie, and shows (if nothing else) that silent films can still be powerful today, even if they are done in a slightly different way.