Pompeii (2014) (original) (raw)

Set in the days leading up to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, a slave on a ship heading for Naples works to get home to save the woman he loves and his best friend, a gladiator trapped inside the city's coliseum.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Writers: Janet Scott Batchler, Lee Batchler, Michael Robert Johnson
Starring: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Jared Harris, Jessica Lucas, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Carrie-Anne Moss
Producer: Jeremy Bolt

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Review by Brian Orndorf, February 20, 2014

3 / 10

When one thinks of history, of powerful screen romance, of epic cinema, the name Paul W.S. Anderson doesn�t immediately spring to mind. The director of �Death Race,� �Aliens vs. Predator,� �The Three Musketeers,� and numerous other disappointing pictures, Anderson swings for the fences with �Pompeii,� his take on a �Titanic�-style spectacle. Typical of his work, this doomsday romance flounders from the get-go, unable to make a sizable imprint on the heart with its cast of dullards, while volcanic bedlam is reduced to a cameo as the screenplay clings to matters of gladiatorial bonding and polit ...read more...

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