Pompeii [Blu-ray]

Although this movie is extremely sad, and roughly based upon history…this is the most romantic movie!! It does hurt that Kit Harington is SEXY as hell in it either?!? 😜

Kit Harrington's abs star in Titanic with togas in what has to be the campiest disaster movie since the Towering Inferno. The script "borrows" liberally from the Conan the Barbarian prologue and an enormous chunk of Gladiator, and as far as the disaster itself goes, there are enough historical inaccuracies to make a college professor throw themself off a bridge. Keifer Sutherland sticks out in this the same way Keanu Reeves stuck out in Bram Stoker's Dracula. All he needed was a mustache to twirl to REALLY complete his over the top villainous Roman Senator. That being said, the costumes and sets were beautiful and Roman Jack and Rose were likable as the leads. Lower your expectations, and have fun watching ancient beautiful people get barbecued. This qualifies as a so bad it's good kind of movie.

I like movies about Rome and this movie was an enjoyable watch. It reminded me of other movies such as Spartacus.Worth watching.

Gladiator meets Game of Thrones meets Volcano. Terrific flick. Watch it!

Folks, please ignore the critics and watch this movie. The only thing I didn't enjoy was Kiefer Sutherland's horrid attempt at an English accent. If you're a, "Game of Thrones", devotee, then you're familiar with Kit Harrington's work and, frankly, he really doesn't move very far away from his, "Jon Snow", depiction here, nor does he need to. This is a fine movie, the critical reviews notwithstanding, and I highly recommend it.

Hardly no plot whatsoever. The "relationship" developed and became "true love" in what seemed like a matter of maybe 14 hours of movie time? It also seemed to rip quite a few pages (of script) straight out of the Gladiator playbook. And the acting = horrendous. The script is an atrocity I legit don't know how this got made, let alone get a budget of 100 million. Once the volcano pops into the script though you kinda get a sense where the film makers blew a majority of that budget which to me is totally fine.I do like Kit Harrington though, even in movies like this. You can tell he really tried, but ultimately the script failed him. Still, as absolutely horrible as I found this movie just now I'm really glad I watched it. I'm not gonna act like I expected high art - I did not. I wanted to watch some crap get wrecked, and crap certainly got wrecked. And because of that I got what I came for. That love story was bogus though, so minus one star. I straight up would've given this five stars if that love story wasn't so poorly paced, like come on man, have them have known each other before the start of the movie or something so it doesn't seems to forced and sudden.If you like crap movies like this, movies like 2012, The Core, Volcano, Dantes Peak, Armageddon, then you know that these films all has something in common- they're all pure crap. And if you like that sort of thing like I do, I can't see why you wouldn't like this.

Look its a high budget action/love story so I don't know what is with people and the historical truth about it. The film is listed as fiction. If you are a fan of the movie Troy but not this then history really isn't important to you because I have read the Illiad enough times not to mention he'd the myth of how Paris and Helen come to be in the first place (it's a pagan story and I am a pagan, not Greek but my friend is) and the movie leaves out huge parts of the story of the war ***Sort of Spoiler Alert*** (Helen was born in Sparta in the legand, her husband only becomes king because he marries Helen after her brother dies.) not to mention how they mention the sun god Apollo a million times but don't include that it was Athena who first came up with the idea of the wooden horse. So if you want a history movie go to the non-fiction section but its not like you are totally shocked that the volcano erupts unless you were stunned when the ship sinks in Titanic. Plus, if you are a girl and have a mad crush on John Snow then you'll be a happy camper trust me. To those who didn't like it fine but don't act like the ending was a cliche because there are a lot of movies with better reviews with far more predictable endings then this.

It was very exciting!

OK, so it' not historically accurate throughout, not everything that happens is always entirely plausible (when is it ever in disaster movies?) and some of the acting might sometimes skid dangerously close to Golden Raspberry territory like a speeding out of control chariot, but with those few minor gripes asides this is a great, fun disaster movie with a healthy pinch of good vs evil and a romantic Romeo-Juliette style story to steer the plot along, which never drags as the film has a very good pace as it unfolds against the backdrop of the famous fall of Pompeii at the hands of an erupting volcano.Visually it looks great, the CGI is pretty good and not too heavy and the disastrous moments of destruction are very cinematic and do a good job of giving you a sense of chaos, panic and doom as the film climaxes, making it very easy to imagine just how awful it must have been for those trying to flee their fate.This is great as a slightly camp sword-and-sandal style disaster movie which is suitably silly in places and gets an extra star for not glossing things over with a Hollywood ending. And if you're just here for a slice of John Snow whilst waiting for the next GoT season to start then obviously there's plenty of him to be had here too so you will watch it anyway.

In all farness this sort of CGI disaster film isn't really my cup of tea but I've been to Pompeii and Herculaneum several times and I'm fascinated by the art and history.I wanted to see how a big budget movie depicted the event, which is impressive, but also realised that the requirements of mainstream popular cinema would entail sitting through a ludicrous fictional soap opera plot.It moves at a cracking pace, coming in at just 95 minutes, and is action packed, but it borrows every trope, or cliché in the book, from Gladiator to Braveheart, via Robin Hood. The lovers are good looking, but insipid, and the half dozen baddies are all formulaic, without distinction.The single good performance comes from Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje who completely steals the show. I accept that he is cast as the woke saint who can do no wrong but he does everything asked of him and more and he is the only cast member with both a physical and emotional presence, exuding star quality.I'll give them this: they at least had the honesty to follow it through to its inevitable conclusion, in that no-one gets out of here alive.

I added this movie to my 3D collection, not knowing much about it, as I hadn't seen any previous reviews.This movie was filmed in 3D and not doctored from 2D. The special effects are spectacular.Plenty of action from Spartans fighting and volcanic activity. The story line is not so brilliant, but the action keeps you engaged.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Got this as I am the only person in the world who does not think 3D is a dying medium.Not awful - can't imagine I will ever watch it again though tbh.I visited Pompeii earlier this year - as you look from the main square up to Mount Vesuvius it really is quite scary to think about what it must have been like when the top blew off that.Not as scary as some of the acting in this - but scary.

An absolute hoot from start to finish! Spectacular CGI and amazing 3D effects help whiz things along at a staggering pace. Unlike so many other modern disaster movies however the spectacular pyrotechnics have been wisely saved for the last 30 minutes. While the plot is deliciously bonkers and the acting is all over the place (poor Mr Sutherland seems to be either attempting a new form of method acting or struggling with a new set of dentures) this is pure Saturday Matinee material from start to finish. The closing scene must be the most toe-curling, jaw-dropping and frankly embarrassing finale of recent years but you can't help enjoying every cliche ridden moment...Oh, and of course the real star is actually the volcano!