Pompeii (2014)
In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.
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Pompeii (2014)
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Released Year: 2014
Runtime: 105 minutes
Directors: Paul W.S. Anderson
Casts: Jared Harris, Joe Pingue, Jean Frenette, Jessica Lucas, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Emily Browning, Carrie-Anne Moss, Sasha Roiz, Kiefer Sutherland, Currie Graham, Patrick Kerton, Maxime Savaria, Kit Harington, Kristina Nicoll, Janine Theriault, Melantha Blackthorne, Derek Herd, Ron Kennell, Rebecca Eady, Dylan Schombing, Tom Bishop Sr., Jean-Francois Lachapelle, Dalmar Abuzeid, Emmanuel Kabongo, Brock Johnson, Mark Whelan, Anaïs Frenette, Donna Christo, Thomas Stumpo, Rodney Alexandre, Zach Burke, Milan Carmona, Jimmy Chimarios, Jay Da Costa, Chris Gonsalves, Johnny Larocque
IMDB: Pompeii (2014)
Storyline
In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.
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Reviews
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service -
What Anderson delivers this one time is a genuine spectacle, a gladiator movie with a volcano in the middle of it.
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Variety -
While more coherent than much of Anderson’s recent work, the film proves less successful at combining destruction and damsel-in-distress storytelling within the same frame, serving up blurry images of Milo trying to rescue Cassia while the city crumbles around them.
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Miami Herald -
The movie is so grand in scale that you can’t help surrender to the spectacle, even if the stuff that’s going on with the people in the film is often close to risible.
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The Dissolve -
Pompeii just feels like an excuse to rain digital terror on screaming extras. There’s much to see here, but little to feel, and even less to remember.
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Film.com -
The first sixty minutes of Pompeii are awful, bordering on unwatchable... The final forty-five minutes of the movie however are, by sheer force of will, irrefutably entertaining. At least there’s raining death in the form of fireballs smashing up the place.
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