Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

jenny_claire-33619 Hi, this is a bit disappointing but watchable. Surely with better cinematography now a days they could do a better film and series of all the books. I want to watch more. Would love to see more of the following books to movie. Do want to see what happening to Ayla on the movies. Have read the books, now want watch a movie. Hope you will think of doing more movies. You just need a better movie writer or the original movie writer to to think of a better way to write this that will actually bring people to watch the movie. And maybe use some of the original actresses and actors, but use them as older versions of them. Would love to see more. I like this movie, but would love it if you decided to do them.

TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews A fictional take on the meeting of cro-magnons and Neanderthals. When her mother dies, the child Ayla(Hannah, mixing her usual determined, almost masculine, approach with some longing to be accepted, to fulfill a role) nearly dies. She is found by the titular clan, and in spite of tribal xenophobia(I use the term in a neutral sense), the medicine woman Iza(Reed, embodying the healer) and the spirit-talker Creb(Remar, who forms a deeply personal relationship with our protagonist) convince the others to take her in. As she grows into adulthood, she must face many trials as "one who does not belong".I have not read novel, albeit I imagine it's well worth reading, as my father is familiar with Jean M. Auel, and explains she researched thoroughly. This has some of the best child actors I've ever witnessed. Even the youngest are entirely convincing. Every performance is raw, honest, and doesn't hold back - making it ideal for the tone, that does not shy away from unpleasant subject matter, without it venturing into exploitative territory, either. The production design is beyond reproach. Nothing can be pointed to as less than perfect - the work with animals is gripping. This has not, and will not, age... other than possibly being disproved by new scientific discovery. Jan De Bont uses the camera extremely well - turning the audience into a voyeur to signal that someone is being watched, maintaining tension without being overt, etc. Alan Silvestri's score is powerful and effective.As I won't be able to avoid comparing this to Quest for Fire, I will simply go through all of their differences. This takes the focus mostly away from tools and the exact "how" of what these beings did, and instead opts for a more personal tale. There's even a sort of antagonist character, to complete the more traditional approach to storytelling. This allows for greater complexity - rather than being fully about a struggle to survive in nature, this explores universal human themes, ones that relate to all of our history, regardless of geography or culture. The status of women and men, birth, talent, origin, etc. Both have a credible spoken language that we can try to understand - here, it is subtitled, and supplemented with English narration. I would be interested in watching a version that omits both - see how much is successfully conveyed without them(I trust the majority of it).There is some bloody, graphic violence, mature and disturbing content in this. I recommend this to anyone who wants to take a journey into where we came from - even if the trip can't be verified, it's an amazing, inspiring ride. 8/10

klima This film was shot in a remote part of a beautiful park in Southern British Columbia, Canada. That's the good part. The premiss of the film is that at some point Neanderthals and Cro- magnons must have encountered each other and interbred. There is now DNA evidence that this happened approx 100,000 years ago, likely in several places, perhaps including Southern Europe and Southern Turkey. Unfortunately the tale that the film tells is about a young woman (the Cro-Magnon) who plays a headstrong righteous person seeking emancipation at the hands of tyrants and an oppressive culture. The development is painfully slow, people communicate through the kind of hand signals and repeated utterances, as you might see in Mexico while watching stupid tourists. Darryl Hanna is easy to look at but boring otherwise. Her repertoire consists of cliché movements and faces. In short, it's a combination of bad entertainment and an awful documentary.

Seersha1 I admit, I was disappointed. Having been a fan of the books since I was 14, I was at least hoping to enjoy the film but felt sadly let down. There was just something lost - perhaps the magic - that the books had. And Daryl Hannah was far too old to play Ayla at 11 or whatever. The second girl to play Ayla should have stayed on for the rest of the movie, she looked about the right age. And I was sad to not see more of Brun. In the book you get a sense of the respect between Ayla and Brun that was missing in the movie. In fact I think this is an overall issue, that I feel the connections were not strong enough between the characters. Still, the movie is interesting if only to see the interpretation of the language, and look of the era.