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2.9 of 5 from 488 ratings
1h 40min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- 'Pompeii' tells the epic story of Milo (Kit Harington), a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a terrifying race against time to save his true love (Emily Browning). As mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena as the once magnificent city crumbles around him.
- Actors:
- Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Kiefer Sutherland, Carrie-Anne Moss, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica Lucas, Jared Harris, Joe Pingue, Currie Graham, Dylan Schombing, Maxime Savaria, Ron Kennell, Tom Bishop Sr., Rebecca Eady, Sasha Roiz, Jean-Francois Lachapelle, Jean Frenette, Dalmar Abuzeid, Emmanuel Kabongo, Brock Johnson
- Directors:
- Paul W.S. Anderson
- Producers:
- Paul W.S. Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, Don Carmody, Robert Kulzer
- Writers:
- Janet Scott Batchler, Lee Batchler
- Studio:
- E1 Entertainment
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Thrillers
- Collections:
- 2014, A History of The Classical World In Cinema, CinemaParadiso.co.uk Through Time, A Brief History of Film...
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 15/09/2014
- Run Time:
- 104 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Director's Commentary
- Deleted Scenes
- Buried in Time
- The Weapons of Pompeii
- The Assembly
- The Journey
- The Gladiators
- The Volcanic Eruption
- The Costume Shop
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 15/09/2014
- Run Time:
- 104 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Director's Commentary
- Deleted Scenes
- Buried in Time
- The Weapons of Pompeii
- The Assembly
- The Journey
- The Gladiators
- The Volcanic Eruption
- The Costume Shop
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Reviews (4) of Pompeii
Excellent! - Pompeii review by CP Customer
Great visual effects and a good story line, it is the type of film which I would watch again. The violence is kept in check, realistic without being too gory.
1 out of 2 members found this review helpful.
High budget low value. - Pompeii review by JD
This is clearly an expensive film with teams of Hollywood promoters ensuring a truly homogenised product. Body building hero meets girl from forbidden class but they elope anyway da..de..da.. what a load of Hollywood pulp, I bet it made millions. If you like visual effects and can sit through any rubbish to get it, it is amazing.
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
Great CGI but not true to the original - Pompeii review by CP Customer
Those who are expecting (as I did) a magnificent screen version of Robert Harris' riveting historic fiction account of the last days of Pompeii, will be greatly disappointed. Although the main event is presented with some truly astonishing visual effects, the original storyline has been massively altered to make way to a mediocre action movie plot, involving barbarians, gladiators, legionnaires and the token love story. I truly missed the original detective/treasure hunt style storyline with interesting characters such as Pliny the Elder and vivid, historically researched imagery that brought the hustle and bustle of everyday life in Pompeii to life.
I'm a special effects fan so I was satisfied with their amount and quality in this film, but in hindsight I wished they had stuck to Robert Harris'/Roman Polanski's original screenplay. The resulting film was pleasant but left a bad taste in my mouth.
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
Critic review
Pompeii review by George Hooper - Cinema Paradiso
All I really know about Volcanoes I learnt from extremely bad 90s action movies where the hero must save a small town, or LA in Tommy Lee Jones’ case from a massive erupting volcano. Their task is impossible but they still seem to try to do everything and then end up doing very little, save for saving a few people or a family full of extremely irritating children. Pompeii follows the same pre-existing formula as the latter films but it seems nobody told director Paul W.S Anderson that this is 2014.
Pompeii follows Milo (Kit Harington), a slave turned gladiator who finds himself travelling to Pompeii to fight days before the dreaded eruption. Once he gets there he meets the beautiful Cassia (Emily Browning) who has found herself at the mercy of the vicious and dictatorial Roman senator Corvus (Kiefer Sutherland). However when the eruption begins Milo must help Cassia escape his clutches and the city alive.
Not only is Pompeii completely ludicrous (Vesuvius proceeds to do things no volcano has ever done) but its utter nonsense as well. Milo and Cassia form a til death do us part link after a few longing glances and a bit of bonding over some of the worst veterinarian skills known to man. Anderson understands the fun in a good old fashioned disaster movie but he doesn’t even try to make it seem plausible, despite the based on a real eruption section of the story.
Not only that but the film devotes almost half its runtime to building up, well, nothing. Everything you need to know is presented within the first 10 minutes of Pompeii but the film proceeds to meander through pointless scenes for almost 40 minutes as Milo practices long and hard on his brooding with fellow gladiator Atticus (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a character far more interesting and charismatic than the temperamental Milo.
In the end Pompeii is like most disaster films, low on sense and high on mind boggling CGI. While the film's final act is wall to wall violence and impressive visuals it never really makes a whole lot of sense with the film's final moments being more hilarious than tragic. If anything, Pompeii is a terrific film to watch with friends, slightly inebriated with the knowledge that what you are about to watch is total nonsense but if you accept it you might just laugh and cheer your way through the awkwardness of it all