Synopsis
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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Cast
- Kit HaringtonMilo
- Emily BrowningCassia
- Adewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeAtticus
- Kiefer SutherlandCorvus
- Carrie-Anne MossAurelia
- Jared HarrisSeverus
- Jessica LucasAriadne
- Sasha RoizProculus
- Currie GrahamBellator
- Joe PingueGraecus
Recommendations
- 63
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. - 60
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. - 50
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. - 40
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. - 35
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. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
While Anderson excels in the film’s many moments of digital doom-and-gloom, he can’t deliver a single authentic emotion between the two star-crossed leads, leaving us with a sooty aftertaste of having sat through one very loud rendition of Titanic in togas. - 25
Slant Magazine
Shockingly, the violent release of smoke, fire, and meteoric debris is positioned more as a climactic afterthought than as the main attraction. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
If you think of Pompeii as a ride, a conveyance for special effects, and not anything resembling an emotional experience, indifference can almost be a good thing.
