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Tuesday 27 August 2019

Pompeii (2014)


Pompeii is a 2014 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. It stars Kit Harrington, Emily Browning, Kiefer Sutherland, Carrie-Anne Moss and Jared Harris.
Supposedly a romantic historic costume drama, this film was as much historically inaccurate as can be. After visiting Pompeii ruins, and studying ancient Rome, I found too many mistakes to count in the 2014 film Pompeii as it was just all wrong. The story is a rehash of what's been told many times in Hollywood films before. There is an underline theme of formula of a child who watches his entire people and family slaughtered, then he's captured and forced to fight, (very familiar Conan the Barbarian movie pattern here) and sent to Pompeii as a slave to fight in the arena. There is this Good versus Evil again. The Romans are portrayed as extremely nasty and looking more like Darth Vader types than Romans. The hero of the film falls in love with a pretty daughter of a rich family, and she's also of a feminist 21st Century attitude and even tries to overpower a man in armour.
While I'm being very negative about this, I was impressed by the performance of Sasha Roiz as Marcus Proculus and he came across as a very Roman soldier. I also liked Jessica Lucus playing Ariadne but her character was wasted when she should've been in this more.
The focus was heavy on special effects, chasing, tsunami and flying firebombs. 
I rate this film actually a 2/10.
Question: What happened to all the people and dead bodies when Milos the Celt was chased in the streets by Quintus Attius Corvus in his chariot?
Howls ^^

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