StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

syman biswas i was excited about this documentary because of Nat Geo but saying just being disappointing is a sure understatement. Firstly, the author, within 10 minutes of the first episodes its clear that he's far far away from understanding what is coming out of his mouth Now about the content, oh and what to say about that, lets for one moment agree with the editor to focus on the main points. Fire, currency, war, shelter, medicine are all revolutionary points but it looks like its not about the whole earth but only Europe and some portion of north America. apart from China( that too minor mention) Asian countries were almost non existent, South America and Africa were not even mentioned, are you kidding, Mesopotamia, Indus valley and what not are not even mentioned once. its a show talking about Origins of humans from hunter gatherers to a civilized societies without even mentioning the first civilizations that ever existed. and about the time-lines what to say about them, don't know what the actual mistake of the creator was, not knowing an iota of the actual stuff and history or just whitewashing over them completely and presenting his own narrative.recommend this show as a fantasy for children but guess what the violence will not suit them, pathetic attempt in name of a documentary..p.s. Some visuals are nice..

dlevi9 Was so psyched to see this. Such an interesting subject matter but the way this is presented with reality TV style commentary and cringe worthy dramatizaions, ruins what could have been a very interesting and educational series. Why oh why did you have to make it in this format? Such a waste. This is definitely for the "American Idol" audience. Going to have to look elsewhere to find some mentally provocative programming. Seems this is the way Nat Geo is going now.

JHerculano The era of Murdoch has arrived at National Geographic. The sneaky indoctrination, the half-truths, the thinly disguised falsehoods and the pandering for the lowest common denominator. Origins, their new "documentary mini-series", is a disgusting product of the Fox "imagination". I'd be very, very surprised if there are scientists that appear here and there that are comfortable with the editing. From homo sapiens "swinging in the trees" to fire being a game changer a stupidifing mere 12,000 years ago, in an age with "no society, no protections, no guarantees", to cooking at such a time mandating a society were "women cook and men hunt." A totally idiotic, scientifically-illiterate, mischievous narrative of nonsense. Fire predates homo-sapiens. The protections of society are a major hominization driver from millions of years ago, and there are no evidence whatsoever that points to a women-cook, men-hunt, sexual division of labor at such times. This is what you get when scientific literacy takes a nose dive. this is what you get when you pander to the prejudices and illusions of knowledge from the dregs of your costumer base. This is where National Geographic goes to die in everything but a hollow brand name. Yes, I am furious. You should be too.

Alex Maurice Green This show is very misleading whitewashed and just disregards facts of history for what is inevitably awful cinematography and presentation. I am sure that hyenas would have not being chasing a group of nomadic Europeans through Eurasia 14000 years ago. Furthermore to claim that fire was just used by humans 14000 years is ridiculous. You are off by about a few 100,000 years. Just next time you want to write a show please contact a anthropologist or maybe a historian who can give you a better clue as to what your cast should look like and facts about human evolution.