Pompeii (2014)
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Critic Consensus: This big-budget sword-and-sandal adventure lacks the energy and storytelling heft to amount to more than a guilty pleasure.
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Cast
as Cassia
as Milo
as Aurelia
as Atticus
as Ariadne
as Severus
as Corvus
as Strigana
as Bellator
as Proculus
as Young Milo
as Milo's Father
as Milo's Mother
as Boss Slaver
as Graecus
as Biggest Thracian
as The Weasel
as Cassia's Carriage Driver
as Felix
as African Gladiator
as Flashback Centurion
as Rich Wife #1
as Rich Wife #2
as Ship's Captain
as Harbour Child
as Harbour Mother
as Harbour Boy
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Critic Reviews for Pompeii
All Critics (146) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (106) | DVD (2)
Is it wrong to root for the volcano?
Parmageddon is nigh in this cheesy action melodrama that feels both overheated with plot developments, yet strangely curdled from a lack of histrionics that might have redeemed it as fun trash.
Narrative has never been Anderson's strength; the story here is a corny overhaul of James Cameron's already-corny Titanic.
No matter how much lava is afoot, there's always time to impale one more person with a sword.
A mindless but watchable fondue pot of high-calorie visuals and ready-made plotting ...
More fun than any civilization's fiery extinction should ever be, Paul W.S. Anderson's Pompeii 3-D is gloriously exciting kitsch - a poor man's Titanic crossed with an even poorer man's Gladiator.
Audience Reviews for Pompeii
Let's start with the positive: the movie looks great, the visuals and effects really work. Little else does, though. The cast acts wooden, the story is predictable and boring, borrowing many elements from Gladiator and the end is cheesy as hell. Overall a real waste of time.
Super Reviewer
From a narrative point of view, this is an uninspired hodgepodge that simply recycles every cliché and convention of the genre (including an indestructible villain), being only worth it for the amusing, great-looking catastrophe, the nice score and Kit Harington's spectacular abs.
Super Reviewer
An average movie. Entertains and gives the viewer enough action for a Sunday afternoon!
Super Reviewer
Pompeii Quotes
| Cassia: | Now, I don't know, I don't know where I'm a gonna go when the volcano blow. |
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