Quest for Fire (1982)

Strictly average movie

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

80,000 years ago, fire is still a mystery. Its creation has yet to be mastered but is stolen from nature. Naoh (Everett McGill), Gaw (Nicholas Kadi) and Amoukar (Ron Perlman) are part of a neanderthal group living in a cave and keeping a fire alive within a lantern. They are attacked by the primitive Homo erectus Wagabou tribe. The remnants of the tribe escape but they lose their fire. The three are sent forth to relight the lantern. They are chased by sabretooth tigers. Then they attack a tribe of cannibals to retrieve fire. By doing so, a prisoner of the cannibals Ika (Rae Dawn Chong) escapes and starts following the trio. She's a Homo sapien. They even encounter mammoths.Although the mammoths look silly now. Historical accuracy can be a tricky thing and I can't nit pick this movie. Some of it seems off but I don't have the required PHD. What I do like is the movie's uniqueness. I don't recall too many films like it. There's maybe one or two. Also the story is actually quite compelling. It's filled with action. It has some funny moments. It's an interesting and truly unique movie going experience.

Quest for Fire (French: La Guerre du feu) is a 1981 film adaptation of the 1911 Belgian novel by J.-H. Rosny,and is probably the greatest pre-historic epic ever filmed, but the funny part is that i've never heard about this filmbefore today. I kinda did a blind-buy when a picked this film so it was like 'whatever' for me. But for my surprise, this film is a bit interesting. The cavemen are surprisingly intelligent in areas such as hunt and attack, and they also have a sub-par instinct and will to live and survive.Sure it is a little nonsense at times, and the fact that it has no dialogs in any real language known in the world don't helps that much, but it needs to be in that way in order to keep the 'disbelief' suspended for it. Obviously, it would be weird to watch Cavemans from 80.000 years ago talking in English.But yeah, as every film which touches in subjects related with the creationist theory, this film drew his fair amount of controversies at the time of it's release. Nothing too strong, though, since that this film is not the most popular out there.I don't have any complaints about the acting, i thought it was very normal, with a few low moments. It's not the kind of film which relies that much in acting, anyways. It's the kind of film that requires the actor to be as bizarre and grotesque possible, which actually is not a hard job. The use of soundtrack is good, very good actually, but the film don't has plenty of quality tracks, so it is kinda off.A recommended film, though not for everyone. 6.6/10

The title of this film came up on a Christian movie website, oddly enough, after googling ancient films. I saw that it had Ron Perlman credited and that gave me the motivation to hunt it down.Being that this movie was made before I was born, there aren't any special effects or epic costumes. There are however, many real animals implemented to the film. I did thoroughly enjoy this movie, and found an attachment to some of the characters. Even my wife, who doesn't particularly fancy films such as this, found it a good watch.Whether this film is historically accurate or not, it opened my mind to the struggles and intelligence of early man.I would highly recommend this to movie buffs that like historical films, and something a little different to your mainstream drama/action.

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.