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Pompeii

Pompeii

2014
Romance, Drama
1h 45m
A slave turned gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him. (imdb)

Directed by:

Paul W.S. Anderson

Screenwriter:

Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler, Michael Robert Johnson

Starring:

Jared Harris, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kiefer Sutherland, Emily Browning, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jessica Lucas, Currie Graham, Jean Frenette, Sasha Roiz, Kit Harington, Ron Kennell, Rebecca Eady

Genres:

Romance, Drama, Action, Adventure, History

Countries:

Canada, Germany, USA

Language:

English
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Pompeii

2014
Romance, Drama
1h 45m
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beedubBeeDub
Rated 05 Jun 2023
68
16th
The director of the Resident Evil movies puts on a few airs and tries to remake Gladiator and Titanic at the same time. Should be great, right? It’s two Oscar-winning movies crammed into one 100-minute waste of time and money!
Rated 05 Jun 2023
mwgerbmwgerb
Rated 22 Feb 2014
22
9th
Like many Paul W.S. Anderson movies, this is a cheap, listless, stillborn imitation of a good film. The romance is tripe, the history is ignored, and all the passable parts were basically lifted from other movies. Like watching Titanic without the passion, or Gladiator without the thrills.
Rated 22 Feb 2014
vdecraimVdecraim
Rated 26 Feb 2014
55
18th
They open throats, blood comes out. They open mouths, shit comes out. A remarkable achievement, as it employs almost every cliché possible to unmatched proportions.
Rated 26 Feb 2014
joseywalesjoseywales
Rated 03 Jun 2015
35
12th
Poor Jon Snow :(
Rated 03 Jun 2015
okkervilOkkervil
Rated 05 May 2014
10
8th
That it took three human brains to create a screenplay as spectacularly idiotic as this is a damning indictment on humanity. The rest of the movie generally consists of Jon Snow smouldering at camera for unfathomable lengths of time. Kiefer's cartoonish villain with token English-esq type accent is probably this films only mildly entertaining facet. However, if I were to describe "Pompeii" in as cogent a sentence as possible it would go something along the lines of: Really fucking shit.
Rated 05 May 2014
burkayadaligburkayadalig
Rated 04 May 2014
47
8th
Gladiator with a volcano as a backdrop... Titanic with a pyroclastic flow... Every possible cliche in epic proportions...
Rated 04 May 2014
bunkenBunken
Rated 03 May 2014
10
4th
vengefulkbmVengefulKBM
Rated 17 Feb 2015
20
2nd
What IS that accent Kiefer Sutherland is attempting to do? This whole movie should just have been about Adewale's character. He feels like he's in a different, MUCH better movie.
Rated 17 Feb 2015
therealj_roTheRealJ-Ro
Rated 05 May 2014
40
13th
There were some early scenes I really liked (ie. windchime of dead bodies & bloody weapons) and some that didn't work (ie. child saunters through small battlefield & has the presence of mind to play dead surrounded by murder). We skip 17 years and the movie goes full Gladiator. Rich girls covertly swoon over shirtless, buff slaves. Horrible dialogue. CGI was hit-and-miss. Too much finger-biting. I guess they depict Pompeii well, and Kiefer is good. I believe that's where my praise ends, though.
Rated 05 May 2014
ytadelYtadel
Rated 03 Mar 2014
3
28th
On the Paul W.S. Anderson scale, I have to say that this is VASTLY better than The Three Musketeers, which qualifies as one of the worst films I've seen so far this decade. Not that this one is good, exactly, but it has some fun bits. Gladiator fights, volcanos, Jon Snow vs. Jack Bauer. Ending kinda made me go "Well then what was the point of any of that?"
Rated 03 Mar 2014
stewballStewball
Rated 22 Feb 2014
50
14th
Jeez, what happened to Herculaneum. Passable graphics and staging. The script showed a few sparks but was mostly lifeless. The masked chorus at the Colosseum was a highpoint, though uncredited.
Rated 22 Feb 2014
ofterdingenOfterdingen
Rated 23 Jul 2018
20
3rd
So bad it makes you root for the volcano.
Rated 23 Jul 2018
synthonosynthono
Rated 14 Apr 2018
75
29th
Kind of a worse Daimajin, takes a great deal of time to set up all the politics and motivations that you kind of know will be irrelevant when the disaster kicks off.
Rated 14 Apr 2018
luna6ixLuna6ix
Rated 21 Dec 2017
58
13th
A botched disaster/action flick that came out at the height of the Roman/Greek flood of movies, but when you mash romance, drama, action, disaster movies together you end up with something that had better do something really well because in a movie, there's no such thing as a jack of all trades, you end up with something more like big mush of unfocused genres with money thrown at it to make it look pretty. Which is pretty much what we have here.
Rated 21 Dec 2017
panzerwolfpanzerwolf
Rated 08 Aug 2017
15
3rd
What a horrible, useless piece of crap. Has all the cliches from "No, I won't leave you!" to a derp kiss and a bad guy who wants to marry the lady romantic interest, a good guy who is kind and brave and the BESTEST FIGHTER EVAR. I'd say go fuck yourself, Paul W.S. Anderson, but he did direct Event Horizon, so I'll tone it down to mild fuckery. Points for the visuals, that is all.
Rated 08 Aug 2017
hellboy76hellboy76
Rated 12 Jan 2016
41
11th
You know nothing Paul W. S. Anderson.
Rated 12 Jan 2016
amazedemonamazedemon
Rated 09 Feb 2015
53
7th
Pompeii's positives lie solely on its pretty visuals. The acting is sub-par, the script abysmal, the direction tiresome, and is so rife with historical inaccuracies that it could (and should) have been set in the Cretaceous period. This disaster movie seems to be compromised entirely of cliches and makes a better drinking game than a cinematic experience. In the end, I was routing for Vesuvius.
Rated 09 Feb 2015
groovysoulsGroovy_Souls
Rated 18 Oct 2014
40
19th
A strange mix of Gladiator and Shrek 2... without the coolness of Gladiator and the charm of Shrek 2. Some of the fight scenes are pretty cool, and the volcano looks cool, but otherwise it is very predictable and pretty poorly acted, aside from my boy Kit Harrington. Really pretty bad.
Rated 18 Oct 2014
reasonReason.
Rated 12 Oct 2014
20
4th
Jon Snow knows nothing, still.
Rated 12 Oct 2014
aflickeringAFlickering
Rated 25 May 2014
2
17th
mildly dug the kinetic action centrepiece at the service of tarantino-style cathartic historical revisionism. kiefer is almost too good playing this kind of cartoonish snarling egomaniac -- little man syndrome shining through, no doubt. the final minute is truly gorgeous but never feels earned, as the rest, while pretty, does little to elevate the material. said material is so earnestly godawful it's almost cute, until you remember certain VA jokers are calling this a masterpiece.
Rated 25 May 2014
billyshearsBillyShears
Rated 08 May 2014
25
4th
And now it's associated with a second disaster. Weird Titanicesque bullshit at play here. Paul just stick to your dumb Resident Evil movies, I want to see where President Wesker goes.
Rated 08 May 2014
csdkcsdk
Rated 02 May 2014
54
20th
Mildly entertaining but... how many times the destruction of Pompeii conveniently stopped to allow the main characters to talk, to fight and to kiss? They even invented a tsunami... maybe the eruption and the earthquake were not enough; next time why not add also an alien starship attacking the city?
Rated 02 May 2014
iconoclastIconoclast
Rated 24 Feb 2014
14
4th
It's that forbidden love story you've seen a million times, but this one has a volcano in it. Incredible.
Rated 24 Feb 2014
matthew_parkinsonMatthew Parkinson
Rated 21 Feb 2014
30
17th
A vapid and forgettable picture, Pompeii fails to generate anything more than complete and utter apathy. A lot of this is attributed to the lead actor simply not caring, but the poorly written characters doesn't help, either. Earlier scenes don't matter because we know everything will be wiped out by the volcano; it comes across as filler. The destruction looks cool but gets repetitive. The central romance has no, well, romance. You have no reason to see Pompeii.
Rated 21 Feb 2014
decanusellisDecanusEllis
Rated 07 Jul 2022
82
80th
Two lovers entombed in ash, declaring their love for eternity.
Rated 07 Jul 2022
muttermutter
Rated 29 May 2022
50
28th
Very guiltily pleasurable
Rated 29 May 2022
videoetronVideoetron
Rated 22 Mar 2021
39
4th
Sure, there is some visuals and gutsy moves, but it would be unfair to give too many points for what was meant to try and make us forget how bad the rest was. The plot is a mixture of tired lesser copies, the budget seems to have all gone to the volcano and not in the decors or choreography or dialogs. I feel sorry for many actors dragged into this. The most thrill was knowing the volcano was gonna wreck things up
Rated 22 Mar 2021
kuroelKuroel
Rated 02 Apr 2020
50
26th
Fight scenes are cut to death to compensate the lack of choreography. Special effects look good if you watch the movie on your phone. The romance was nice. For the sake of the impact of the ending, I'd only hope they'd stuck more with romance rather than bombasting my retinas with sword clashing and fireballs. In stead, they COULD have bombasted me more with those sweet, sweet Kitty abs. (Also, Sutherland does a cartoon villain role which fits the tone of this movie like a three fingered glove.)
Rated 02 Apr 2020
fra_paolofra paolo
Rated 31 Jan 2019
66
72nd
Gladiator meets The Towering Inferno with unpredictable consequences. A disaster film for the era of climate change!
Rated 31 Jan 2019
metalhankmetalhank
Rated 21 Oct 2017
67
68th
Entertaining action flick, which is totally what it was meant to be, if you were expecting some dramatic history lesson you're a fucking idiot to have watched this. The CGI admittedly wasn't the greatest, but not awful either. The story and acting were quite good with a nod to Akinnuoye-Agbaje.
Rated 21 Oct 2017
luordluord
Rated 09 Aug 2017
51
27th
I don't hate it. I don't love it. It has zero redeeming qualities... but it doesn't have many condemning qualities either. There're worse things one could spend 105 minutes on.
Rated 09 Aug 2017
koiraskoiras
Rated 17 Jan 2017
20
18th
A sexy depiction of revenge__in the name of love
Rated 17 Jan 2017
ikkegoemikkeikkegoemikke
Rated 04 Jan 2017
56
43rd
It's just like a porn ... you're waiting for the action and the eruption ... My opinion here : http://opinion-as-a-moviefreak.blogspot.be/2014/05/pompeii-2014.html [Full review]
Rated 04 Jan 2017
wicheWiche
Rated 16 Mar 2016
29
9th
Plotless and worthless. I watched the entire movie just because I wanted to see how epic the outburst would be, but even there I got hugely disappointed by the overly cheesy last minutes. Really? A kiss? Look at me, the world is going to end, kiss me? Fuck that, that isn't romantic, that's plain ridiculous. I would have loved the film if just he would have taken the horse and ran.
Rated 16 Mar 2016
corbadCorbad
Rated 29 Dec 2015
80
79th
Swords, sandals, and excellent sets and CG imagery carry a simple plot into the realm of solid entertainment.
Rated 29 Dec 2015
last_requestlast request
Rated 31 Oct 2015
39
11th
Awful script, tedious romance story, carboard characters. Effects are nice when the volcano finally blows but other than that it just made me wish I was watching Gladiator.
Rated 31 Oct 2015
wulfstanleeWulfstanLee
Rated 16 Oct 2015
20
15th
Enjoyable at times (well, enjoyable when Vesuvius goes boom) but ultimately underwhelming. Kit Harington is neither good nor all that bad, and Keifer Sutherland puts on a bad accent to menace Harington and Emily Browning as Pompeii destructs around them. The story in this one is riddled with cliches, which made it uninteresting: slave gets his family killed and later gets revenge, noblewoman falls in love with slave, slave gets lashed, fated lovers, etc. Nothing new to see here, so move along.
Rated 16 Oct 2015
rosenritterrosenritter
Rated 12 Oct 2015
6
47th
Garbage. I love it.
Rated 12 Oct 2015
mombert89Mombert89
Rated 21 Jun 2015
59
1st
really really bad work for a name like this!
Rated 21 Jun 2015
boxcarsBoxcars
Rated 15 May 2015
3
5th
As you'd expect from a Paul W.S. Anderson feature, "Pompeii" is nothing more than schlock fest of a sword-and-sandal "epic".
Rated 15 May 2015
dougcollinsDougCollins
Rated 09 Apr 2015
85
54th
Much better than expected. Borrows heavily from Gladiator but good none the less.
Rated 09 Apr 2015
realmacgyverRealMacgyver
Rated 25 Mar 2015
40
7th
Jon Snow is miss cast in this (regardless of how much the IMDB trivia bangs on about him being "ripped" he's too small for the role) and the script was written by a teenager. Some decent points, but pretty much what you'd expect from the director...
Rated 25 Mar 2015
catnipCatnip
Rated 14 Mar 2015
20
9th
"Me slave, she lady, me like horseys, she like horseys - it's love!" - and then a lot of fighting and explosions. Yup, that about sums it up. BUT: I did already expect the worst from this so I can probably say I'm positively surprised, this movie still had its few moments (tho most of them had probably to do with me marveling at both Kit Harington and Emily Brownings beautiful faces...)
Rated 14 Mar 2015
alberteAlbertE
Rated 16 Oct 2014
1
22nd
bullshit!
Rated 16 Oct 2014
carpetgiantCarpetgiant
Rated 06 Oct 2014
75
8th
If you close your eyes, does it almost feel like you've been here before? How am I supposed to be optimistic about movies like this?
Rated 06 Oct 2014
daphnlDaph_NL
Rated 06 Sep 2014
48
33rd
True romance batteling time... I think there is too much action in this movie, but what happened to the two lovers in the end was surprising for me. Acting is not bad at all, but there is a lot to say against this movie. At the end of the day, 48/100.
Rated 06 Sep 2014
rpossobonr.possobon
Rated 11 Aug 2014
40
8th
Ótimos efeitos e cenários. Péssimas atuações e roteiro.
Rated 11 Aug 2014
ryan_luedersRyan Lueders
Rated 13 Jun 2014
69
28th
I wouldn't say it was exactly explosive but a few sparks flew throughout the film. I honestly liked the characters... although I find Emily Browning quite mesmerizing. I though Kiefer Sutherland was an interesting bad guy, and I liked his strange accent. Kit Harington was a decent action star and it's good to see him move away from television for a bit. A lot of the best scenes in this are stolen from Gladiator and 300...
Rated 13 Jun 2014
nofearnofear
Rated 02 Jun 2014
30
2nd
Drivel from start to finish. A needless story while waiting for the eruption which can't come soon enough.
Rated 02 Jun 2014
ecitizeneCitizen
Rated 02 Jun 2014
40
32nd
I'm a big fan of the genre and of these actors, but the story is weak. Thankfully it all ends as it should. Emily Browning is underrated. Kit Harington is too small in stature for the role, his performance was mostly uninspired. We were supposed to hate Kiefer Sutherland's character, but he also seemed out of place. Sasha Roiz was great as the Roman soldier. Some of the special effects were good as was the music and sound. It suffers from a weak convoluted story and sometimes poor dialog.
Rated 02 Jun 2014
ribcageribcage
Rated 26 May 2014
72
63rd
i'm nearly all alone in liking this, but im also nearly all alone in having a special guilty pleasure spot for paul anderson. it was more than i expected from paul anderson, that's for sure. i loved the cast(which is more than i can say for any of his other films besides event horizon), and this cast made an o.k. story much more enjoyable to watch. the cataclysm is quietly foreshadowed and makes for an enormous climax. great action scenes in the end.
Rated 26 May 2014
barraocBarraoc
Rated 12 May 2014
50
19th
I have a rule: If Emily Browning is in it, watch it. That's my excuse anyway.
Rated 12 May 2014
wezzoWezzo
Rated 12 May 2014
57
9th
Smooth sword sequences, but they alone can't make up for the relentless tedium of this cheesy and silly mess.
Rated 12 May 2014
ludvigsenludvigsen
Rated 10 May 2014
40
12th
in some weird way this could be Andersons most coherent film. Logic, motivations, and human dialogue is still nowhere to be found though. Titanic on a volcano without us caring much.
Rated 10 May 2014
shauny18shauny18
Rated 05 May 2014
45
25th
Kit Harington was fighting a losing battle with this wooden script surrounded by some of the worst CGI you will see. The use of lens flare to disguise the visual failures is really noticeable. The love story element didnt work for me and it was difficult to feel engaged with that part. I think the revenge sub storyline would have worked better as the main plot point before the eruption. Its a failure of explosive proportions.
Rated 05 May 2014
iyisinekiyisinek
Rated 05 May 2014
70
42nd
gladyatör, özgürlük, kiyamet, deprem, arena, roma, kelt, düello, intikam, ask, köle (ailesi katledilen bir keltli çocuk, Pompeii'de gladyatörlük yapacaktir.)
Rated 05 May 2014
roonay3kroonay3k
Rated 05 May 2014
45
18th
Great sound an picture! Special affects are very nice! Rest is GARBAGE!! The story is just stupid and dull. If you loved Gladiator like me and for a second think that this is something similar you are dead wrong. It's a movie for 14-year old girls. Effects & Sound keeps it from a 10.
Rated 05 May 2014
nechbetnechbet
Rated 02 May 2014
50
16th
I don't know man, i was looking at John Snow and forgot to decide if it was good or bad. #biased
Rated 02 May 2014
jordanligejordanlige
Rated 09 Mar 2014
100
51st
very good movie
Rated 09 Mar 2014
pluggedinPluggedIN
Rated 21 Feb 2014
50
50th
Gladiators! Absolute destruction! Evil Roman centurions! Warring tribesmen! Machiavellian politicians! Merciless whippings! A Titanic-tinged love story! And, yes, that vile and vicious volcano! (pluggedin.com)
Rated 21 Feb 2014

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