kvnnagel
This was actually a movie that I spent money to go see in theatre being as the storyline of The Eruption Of Mount Vesuvius was always very interesting. The script should have followed what was known.. not conjecture. I'd have rather given my 12 Bucks to a homeless guy and that would have been a better story and plot.
Prismark10
It is Gladiator meets Volcano as Hollywood Hack Paul W S Anderson once again strives to make a passable film and fails.Milo (Kit Harington) is a slave called the Celt from ancient Briton was as a child saw his people massacred by cruel Corvus (Kiefer Sutherland.)Milo is now a gladiator brought to Pompeii as the nearby mountain is about to erupt. Milo is due to battle mighty Atticus (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) who needs just one more victory to become free.Milo's horse whispering abilities has also brings him close to a roman woman Cassia (Emily Browning) as she arrives in Pompeii to be with her wealthy family. Hot on her heels is Corvus, who wants to marry Cassia and is the new senator of Pompeii.However as Pompeii spews its volcanic ash, Milo sees his chance to get revenge on Corvus.The film is utter tosh. The first hour is a thin story with zero characterisation. The second hour moves from Gladiator to a Roman disaster story.
tubularbelle2003
I gave this film 3 stars for the fight scenes only.The script was poor, the acting more so. It was Titanic with flames instead of water.The 'lovers' spent most of the film looking rather pathetically at each other.Other than the volcano the only person I rooted for was Atticus. I couldn't wait for them all to be ashed.
Rob-o
My wife turned this movie on last week when it was playing on the Syfy channel. When I came into the room where my wife was watching, I did a double-take because my wife doesn't really watch the Syfy channel that much. I was like, "Syfy....whaaat??" It turns out my bride was watching Pompeii, and she was steaming angry. The movie was scheduled to run from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM on the Syfy channel, and my wife was mad that it was already 2:04 PM and the stupid volcano had not erupted yet. Instead there was a ridiculous gladiator scene going on the screen to amuse the "Roman Senator" Kiefer Sutherland (side note: when I saw Kiefer Sutherland, I was like "Kiefer Sutherland....whaaat?"). The clock hit 2:15 PM, and my wife's blood lust for death by volcano had still not been satisfied. Finally, the volcano blew at 2:24 PM, giving us viewers only 36 minutes (including commercials) to revel in the mass destruction and death caused by Vesuvius. One of the first casualties of the volcano was Carrie-Anne Moss, who was also inexplicably in this film. I think I heard Carrie-Anne Moss say one sentence from the time I started watching at 2:04 PM and the time she died 25 minutes later. Later, Carrie-Anne Moss! I think my wife's anger slowly faded as more and more people were murdered by that evil volcano. She probably would have enjoyed the volcano blowing during the opening credits, but I guess there had to be some kind of love story that included Kiefer Sutherland woven in. I actually think it would be fun to see a movie where the volcano exploded during the opening credits and, as soon as the opening credits ended, the closing credits began rolling because everybody died during the opening credits. A movie like that would free up more time for me to watch other movies. And being able to watch other movies is the main reason why I watch movies in the first place.
