TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

paulclaassen The producers were probably hoping for a 'Titanic'-like romantic disaster film. Sadly, though, 'Pompeii' suffers from silly dialogue and unconvincing, bland acting. I did not find the whole Gladiator back story interesting. The continuous fighting despite the chaos of the eruption was silly and annoying. And, honestly, how many near-death moments am I supposed to endure in one film? Also, the chemistry between Kit Harrington and Emily Browning didn't feel natural. Kiefer Sutherland's acting was similar to stage acting and carried very little weight.The recreation of the city of Pompeii was amazing, and the film did have some incredible visuals - notably the collapsing villa scene, and off course, the final eruption moments.

diogomanuel If you are wondering whether you should see this movie or not, I think you should see it. It may be historical inaccurate but who depends on Hollywood to learn history?Making a movie about the ancient city of Pompeii is difficult because everyone already knows what happened. The brute power of Nature (although it didn't exactly happen that way) is greatly portrayed by the technology available in Hollywood today; however, I don't think this is the movie's biggest asset.What I enjoyed the most is that the sword fighting sequences weren't overdeveloped by a martial arts expert and they are realistic. The love story develops in a natural way (who never knew someone interesting in the most unusual of places?!) and the end may indeed surprise some, while making completely sense.

dierregi Sometimes is fun to watch a movie on TV just to trade jokes with your friends. Pompeii is one of those movies, so bad it is almost comical (but not quite).The plot is the following: the barbarian hero - weirdly named Milo - witnesses his tribe been slaughtered by evil Romans, under the command of super-evil Jack Bauer, in Roman rags. Milo ends up as a gladiator in Londinium and from there he's moved to Pompeii, because he's just too good a fighter to rot in the province. Along the road he helps Cassia, a damsel in distress and it's love at first sight. Once in Pompeii Milo is incarcerated with a politically correct tough guy (sort of Jules from Pulp Fiction, only with a lot more muscles). Under the flimsiest pretense, Milo and Tough Guy are taken to Cassia's villa, where Milo has another chance at intimate conversation with the girl and also discovers that Jack Bauer plans to marry her (obviously against her will).The following day, the sh*t hits the fan: during the games in the arena Milo and Tough Guy are targeted for destruction by all the other gladiators, but the Vesuvius decides to start erupting there and then. All the main characters try to escape one way or the other. In the best Titanic tradition, unconcerned by tsunami, earthquakes and flying balls of fire, Milo, Jack Bauer, Tough Guy and other Romans still waste time fighting each other. Despite lava and pyroclastic flow moving very slowly, the success rate of the escape will be very low.Kit Harington of GOT fame is Milo. He's cute but really short. All the other male leads are taller and the actress playing Cassia was probably chosen just because shorter than him (in the best Alan Ladd-Veronica Lake tradition). A final word of demerit for the unbelievably bad CGI.

brndshoun I watched this for Kit Harrington. To see him in something else besides GOT. Well, at least he knew something. But there are so many stereotypes. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back, boy kisses girl, they both die. Atticus dying "I die free", shades of STARGATE and nobody gets out alive!