Pompeii (2014)

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.

To be fair i would put a 7 for this movie but i really don't understand all the low ratings! And i have watched a lot of crappy movies! Very good visual effects, decent acting, sure it's not the movie of the century but it's enjoyable to watch! An average note of 5.5 isn't fair in my opinion.

This movie is what happens when you are trying to create Gladiator and Titanic, but if the Titanic was sinking slowly and nobody was dying for it, Gladiator was ornamental, John Snow looked uninteresting, the hottest lady around is that lady from Sucker Punch, Jack Bauer was evil and bored and Killer Croc... well, he kept his standards, while Trinity looks bored.For history fans, it is offensive over the limits. For science fans, it is terrible. For physicists it breaks every rule known. For toxicologists is laughable. For love story fans, it is really boring. For action fans it is overly long and terribly edited. For CGI fans it is terrible. For practical effects fans... Pfft. Keep dreaming. It offers nothing to anyone. Even at the end you just want it to end before you actually take your life out of boredom. (I wanted it to end around 45 minutes earlier, but beggars can be choosers)Dull at its finest. Cliché to a maximum level. They tried to make it a safe movie and ended doing a boring mess. I give it a point because my fan fiction about Trinity giving birth the dancer from sucker punch, which marries Jon Snow, whose best buddy is Killer Croc, While Jack Bauer tries to conquer Westeros is a million times better after watching this abomination.

Saying that, I didn't particularly fall crazy in love with this film, but I did like it. If you enjoy movies of this type of genre then I say, give it go. Yes, it's titled Pompeii, but don't be fooled into thinking that the movie is based & focuses on Pompeii itself. I do believe that it hardly follows true events of what really happened back when the volcano blew its top, but the storyline they went with & used wasn't that bad.. I thought the special effects did OK & wasn't poorly done & the acting wasn't bad in any way either. I do feel slightly disappointed, they could of really gone to town with the blood, guts & grisly stuff beings as they chose to focus the storyline around fighting, gladiators & more fighting, but the movie lacked any of the sort.