If the viewer is able to buy into some of the more ridiculous aspects of the movie and cope with the absence of intelligible dialogue, Quest for Fire emerges as an engaging adventure film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2024

[An] innovative work.

| Aug 10, 2022

A movie so rich in entertainment and genuine emotion which seems to race through its hundred minute running time like an express train.

| Jul 28, 2022

Quest For Fire is thrilling and awesome in its individual and collective achievements.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 27, 2020

The film may take a bit of getting used to, but proves to be well worth the effort. Audiences will find themselves not only informed and illuminated by its unique vision, but also enthralled and -- the biggest surprise of all --quite entertained.

| Nov 20, 2019

The end results are thrilling. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 22, 2019

Quest for Fire contains a uniqueness rarely seen in the homogenous product of today's film industry.

| Oct 22, 2018

An engaging prehistoric yarn that happily never degenerates into a club and lion skin spinoff of Star Wars and resolutely refuses to bludgeon the viewer with facile or gratuitous effects.

| Mar 26, 2009

stylish but bizarre

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 20, 2008

Quest for Fire boldly states its claims to dance along the abyss of the ridiculous.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 25, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2005

These characters and their quest began to grow on me, and by the time the movie was over I cared very much about how their lives would turn out.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 23, 2004

''Quest for Fire'' is more than just a hugely enterprising science lesson, although it certainly is that. It's also a touching, funny and suspenseful drama about prehumans.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 30, 2004

Quest for Fire takes us back 80,000 years to probe early human aggression, territoriality, dominance and education.

| Feb 4, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 22, 2004

Despite the film's occasional goofy turns, by the end, chances are, you'll be rooting for the Ulam to work out that nifty little stick-rubbing trick for themselves.

| Original Score: 71/100 | Oct 29, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 21, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2003