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Pompeii

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• Adventure
• Drama

• 2014
• Paul W S Anderson
• 100 mins
• 12

Summary

Action adventure starring Kit Harington, Emily Browning and Carrie-Anne Moss. 79 AD: As Mount Vesuvius threatens to erupt and destroy the city of Pompeii, a Celtic slave-turned-gladiator faces a struggle to win back the heart of his true love who has been betrothed to a corrupt senator.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Alan Jones

Corrupt Roman senator Kiefer Sutherland arrives in Pompeii to invest in Jared Harris's plans to modernise the city, but mainly to nab Harris's daughter, Emily Browning, as his wife. Trouble is she's smitten by horse-whispering slave-turned-gladiator Kit Harington (Game of Thrones). Not that any of this turgid soap in togas matters because it's 79 AD and Mount Vesuvius is about to erupt and annihilate the "holiday resort" as the jarringly modern script describes it. Actually everything about director Paul WS Anderson's sword-and-sandal spectacular is off-kilter, from the laughable dialogue and predictable romance to the ludicrous carnage and cheesy acting (where did Sutherland get that British accent?). But when the volcanic fire and brimstone explodes, the lava flows and the CGI catastrophe runs rampant, this disaster pot-boiler finally provides the thrilling epic destruction you've waited an hour to witness. Complete with tsunami! Absolute nonsense, highly entertaining (on certain camp levels) - and never boring.

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Cast

rolenameMiloKit HaringtonAureliaCarrie-Anne MossCassiaEmily BrowningSeverusJared HarrisCorvusKiefer SutherlandAtticusAdewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeAriadneJessica LucasBellatorCurrie GrahamProculusSasha RoizGraecusJoe Pingue

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Theatrical distributor

Entertainment One

Released on

2014-05-02

Languages

English

Guidance

Some violence, swearing.

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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