Pompeii Reviews

Movie Reviews

• when not focused on Vesuvius, Pompeii is dull sword-and-sandal campy theatrics

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• this team-up between the director of "AVP: Alien vs. Predator" (Paul W.S. Anderson) and the star of "Sucker Punch" (Emily Browning) is as awful as you feared it might be

  by Alonso Duralde [The Wrap ]

• the acting is flat, the story is corny and old fashioned and takes too long to get going

  by Roger Moore [Movie Nation ]

• Anderson excels in the film's many moments of digital doom-and-gloom, he 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

  by Jordan Mintzer [Hollywood Reporter ]

• a campy guilty pleasure that serves up a "Gladiator'' knockoff as an appetizer to the impressively flame-filled main course

  by Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]

• "Pompeii" certainly recognizes what mass audiences want from a "Game of Thrones"-style sword-and-scandal saga, delivering especially high marks as either a sudsy indulgence for teenage girls or a beefcake offering for gay men

  by Peter Debruge [Variety ]

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