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Pompeii

Pompeii (Pompei)

2014

Paul W.S. Anderson

Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Browning, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ...

4.2

11,644

Adventure. Drama Set in late summer 79 A.D., Pompeii revolves around the slave of a shipping tycoon who dreams of the day he can buy his freedom and marry his master's daughter. What the slave doesn't know is that she's already been promised to a corrupt Roman senator, while he's been sold to another owner. Just when things can't get any worse, Mt. Vesuvius erupts with the power of 40 nuclear bombs. But the slave is trapped on a ship headed for Naples, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"Anderson (...) 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."	NEG
United States	Mike Hale The New York Times	"In 'Pompeii', Mr. Anderson's latest 3-D extravaganza, and his first film without Ms. Jovovich since 2008, he seems to be without visual focus."	NEG
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"The result is a generic saga with a cast of forgettable one-dimensional characters. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Peter Debruge 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."	NEU
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"A campy guilty pleasure that serves up a 'Gladiator' knockoff as an appetizer to the impressively flame-filled main course. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU

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