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Summary: Quest For Fire
Review: This film is fantastic movie making at it's best.From beginning to end your captivated. Lets face it how many movies can anyone sit through it's entirety with out a word of english being spoken
The locations the makeup this film is history on celluloid.I have not forgotten this film since 1984 and I am anxiously awaiting it's release on dvd. If you've never seen it check it out it's still around on vhs...
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Summary: Excellent movie.
Review: For an early eightys movie, I thought "Quest for Fire" was a great movie which depicted the ways of early mankind and explained just how important stuff that we take for granted today was once so heavily relied upon. I thought the asian circus elephants covered in musk ox hair was an excellent depiction of the wooly mammoths of pleistocene europe. The two lions wearing saber teeth was also a great example of how historical movies like that can be made succesful without top dollar computerized animal characters much like "Jumanji" or the newest movie "Ice Age." Many people complain of how historically inaccurate the story is. However, that simply isnt true, and anybody who reads the book first would see why. The story starts of in 78,000 B.c. in ice age Europe. Many people complain that cro magnan didnt show up until about 10,000 B.C. Several other reviewers said that the characters were much too primative in their language and overall behavior. However, the story book tells that the 3 main characters were Neanderthals...so the movie isnt all that inaccurate and lousy to a historian point of view. I thought Quest for Fire was an excellent movie in both plot and cast and it deffinently has my 2 thumbs up.
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Summary: A uniquely entertaining film
Review: This is a great watch- gripping, humorous, touching, and totally unique. Taking place as it does in the prehistoric past, let's just say that this isn't a dialogue-driven film, and the fact that the film is as engaging as it is while relying on non-verbal narrative testifies to the talent of film maker Jean-Jacques Annaud. Ron Perlman is about the only recognizable actor (and he's been the biggest hit with the French since Jerry Lewis, apparently, because you can find him in several French productions)although Rae Dawn Chong (thespian daughter of Tommy Chong of "Cheech and Chong" fame) is a notable name to look for when the credits roll. The scenery is absolutely incredible and is worthy of David Lean or Stanley Kubric (the movie was filmed on location all over the globe). I have to caution people though not to take the pre-historical content too seriously, or rather, seriously at all. There is precious little anthropological accuracy in this film despite the consultation of Desmond Morris ("The Naked Ape"). Just consider, for example, a hominid society that has fewer words in their language than a Chimpanzee call system. This is ABL (a technical anthropological acronym that stands for "Aint bloody likely"). Considering also that Homo erectus used fire about 1.2 million years ago, you'd think that an anatomically modern Homo sapiens would have mastered the concept by then. As another reviewer stated, the anthropological accuracy isn't the point of this film, so enjoy it for the great story that it is, but if you want a realistic picture of life in the Upper Paleolithic, well, this film falls somewhere on the continuum between "The Flinstones" and "Caveman."
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES MADE
Review: Please come out with a DVD version of this masterpiece as soon as possible. I saw this movie many years ago, and never thought I'd see it again. If it had not been for all your reviews, I would not have known it was this movie. Yes, this is the ultimate 'primitive' movie...definitely much better than 'Clan of the Cave Bears'. Here are the things you'll see : hairy cavemen, cannibals, neanderthals, sabre-tooth tigers, mammoths, pigmies, great landscapes and sceneries. The movie will humble you and make you think how precious the most basic necessities of life really is. You'll experience love, sex, tribal wars, sadness, humor. And for the last time, forget the historical experts that always claim some movie is bad because its historically inaccurate. I won't trade this movie for 99% of the Hollywood movies out there today!
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Summary: Quest for Fire
Review: Ah yes, Quest for Fire. This nearly forgotten masterpiece still stands as one of the more unique films made in years. No club and lion skin parody here, director Jean-Jacques Annaud does a great job at capturing the desolation and desperation humans must have endured some 80,000 years ago. He also refuses to drown the film in FX, which no doubt would be the case had this film been made today. The plot is simple: Three warriors of a primitive tribe are sent out to find a source of fire after their old pilot lights are extinguished during an attack by a group of "Neanderthals". After numerous adventures they find a fire amongst a cannibal tribe, but also learn how to produce it when they are led to an advanced human community by a young girl whom they've saved from the cannibals. With a 12 million dollar budget combined with wonderful locations in Kenya and Scotland, Annaud has not only crafted genuine entertainment, but a thought provoking tale as well. Sure, the film may not be anthropologically correct, but the film does paint a convincing portrait of a people who must use basic wits for mere survival. This is definitely one film that needs a special edition DVD release.
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Summary: Realistic!!
Review: I found this movie to be very realistic. Or, as you would have pictured life to have been during the time. No other "cave man" movie even comes close to this movie. Must See.
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Summary: Quest For Fire available on DVD
Review: Yes, I finally found it! I've browsed the web for some time now, searching for the Quest For Fire on DVD. It's not available in English version, however it's available on German - and since no one ever say a word in the whole movie - why mind? Check amazon.de!
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Summary: Magnificent on every level
Review: A film with no words that's informative, thought-provoking, hilarious and completely original? This simple story of man's early attempts at living in societies, using language, and his yearnings for a few home comforts stays in your heart and mind forever. When you see the credits scroll by at the end, you'll see the film has an excellent pedigree. Wonderful entertainment.
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Summary: speechless
Review: Historical innacuracies? Sure, but so what. This is one of those engrossing viewing experiences that completely transports you to another time and place, and evokes primal memories from before the automobile, shopping malls and convenience stores. Imagine a movie where no one talks. See Ron Perlman as another kind of beast, and Rae Dawn Chong introduce the missonary position. I love it every time! Better than a week in the woods!
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Summary: Quest for Fire rare exception to all the crap that'soutthere
Review: Quest for Fire is incredible and I'll leave how I feel like this: my soul was deeply affected. You leave the movie feeling what we felt thousands of years ago and I swear I feel I was with 'em. The movie is one the highlghts of my life and I'll always cherish this movie up there with Kirk Gibson's homerun and my 3 brothers hanging out with me at the same time.
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