Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

imwinglessangel Anyone who paid attention in HS cannot take this movie seriously. Science and History was thrown out the window when this movie was written. Movies like One Million Years B.C. were at least entertaining. I only watched until the end to see where other reviewers found it so "realistic". My library is full of books on Prehistoric times and this movie never even tried to fit into the true nature of prehistory. If you want a good laugh then watch it. If you want to see a movie that is scientifically & historically accurate then I suggest Clan of the Cave. Bear. If they had placed the story line to perhaps 500,000 BC it might have reflected more truly the human evolution; unfortunately this story line would eventually lead to Homosapiens Never developing into the intelligent beings we have become.

gavin6942 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.

dougdoepke Stanley Kubrick's classic "2001" celebrates the first weapon, when a hairy primate through some burst of savage genius turns a useless thigh-bone into a dominating club. He thereby takes a giant first step in humanity's long pursuit of bigger and better weapons. On the other hand, "Quest for Fire" dramatizes humanity's other side: the civilizing arrival of the campfire. But not just any campfire; instead it's the security found in mastering the technique to make fire any time the tribe wants. As a result, the Cro-Magnons have for the first time some control over their environment and can take time to relax. That's made apparent at film's end when the clan gathers happily around crackling embers to relate stories through crude gestures and grunts. Perhaps the evolution of complex linguistic forms had its origins in just such relaxed moments, when imagination and thinking could take hold and get expression in the company of others.There's also that overlooked moment when Naoh humbly approaches the lordly herd of marauding mastodons. Tufts of grass in hand, he bows his head in an unmistakable gesture of submission, to which the herd responds-- not very plausibly --by chasing away the attacking cannibal clan. The point here is that Naoh understands in that quiet moment that we must live humbly with those forces much greater than ourselves if we want to survive-- a possible seed of what would later become religious belief, whether in the forces of nature or in the supposed power of the supernatural.Of course, this is all speculation. The filmmakers don't exactly hit you over the head with their messages. However, the point is that the film succeeds admirably in getting you to think about the natural history of what these lowly but momentous origins must have been like. Moreover, there are other suggestive moments, such as when the camera transitions from Rae Dawn Chong's pregnant belly to the distant full moon and humanity's far-off future. Some reviewers point out scientific flaws in the script and reject the film on that basis. But that misses the point. Of course the film is not a documentary, so no serious researcher would base a study on it. Nonetheless, the movie remains just that, a well-staged and provocative ninety minutes of unusual filmmaking. I've seen nothing like it before or since.

RopeofSand 1980 Quest For Fire has interspecies sex, plenty of grunting and gesticulating, cannibalism, lions with fake saber teeth, elephants with wooly mammoth costumes and more grunting. Yet this joint French-Canadian-American production never feels shlocky and has a fairly professional feel to it. Someone actually did a decent amount of research in making this film and genuinely wanted to give a realistic glimpse into the ancestry of our species. In a genre that is known for fur bikinis and battles with non-contemporaneous dinosaurs, QfF is probably the best film dealing with prehistoric humanity. It is certainly far better than the godawful Clan of the Cave Bear and the not-worth-mentioning-but-will-anyway 10,000 B.C.Somewhere in prehistoric Eurasia, a Neanderthal tribe called the Ulams are going about their daily Neanderthal business(grooming each other for insects and non-concensual sex) when they are savagely attacked by a tribe of ape-like Homo Erectus, called the Wagabus. The Wagabus are after their fire and their women, and after a brief rumble the Ulams flee into the forest and are then chased by a wolf pack into a swamp. They lose the fire, and as they are unable to make it, the tribe is melancholy and fearful, and their survival seems in doubt. The Ulam elder elects three men - Naoh(Everett McGill, "Dune", "People Under the Stairs"), Amoukar(Ron Perlman, "Hellboy" , "Ice Pirates") and Gah (Nicholas Kadi, "Sleeper Cell, "Congo")-to retrieve fire. They embark on a journey to find fire and save the tribe.First and foremost, QiF deserves praise for its actors. This movie made me realize how portraying a prehistoric human is a very challenging role for any actor to undertake. Perlman, McGill and Kadi apparently did extensive research on great ape behavior and give performances that are never campy. There are no subtitles, which prompts them to put more effort into expressing these characters. The cinematography is impressive and the prehistoric landscape is well displayed. The use of real animals and both imagined and established linguistics also gives them film a degree of realism. Rae Dawn Chong also gives a believable performance as a young Cro Magnon girl the trio encounter on their quest.The film is, of course, flawed in some ways, but until someone has the motivation to make a REAL prehistoric epic that doesn't involve bad acting and CGI smilodons, CfF is as good as it gets.