✗ SKIP — Not worth it

Pompeii

Name: Pompeii
Director: Paul W. S. Anderson
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, Romance, Drama
Released: 2014-02-18
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 5.5
Cast: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kiefer Sutherland, Carrie-Anne Moss

2014 · 1h 45m · Action, Adventure, History, Romance, Drama

IMDb 5.5 Metacritic 41 RT 27%

Skip it. This is a forgettable disaster movie that mistakes spectacle for substance, lazily grafting a generic slave-turned-hero romance onto real historical tragedy. Unless you're specifically hunting for mindless popcorn entertainment on a Sunday afternoon, your time is better spent elsewhere.

Plot

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.

Director: Paul W. S. Anderson

Cast: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kiefer Sutherland, Carrie-Anne Moss

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