Pompeii Movie 2014 Full 3D Movie
Set in 79 A.D., this is the epic story of Milo, a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.
Release date: February 21, 2014 (USA)
Director: Paul W. S. Anderson
Running time: 105 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13
Adapted from: Pompeii
This is the surprisingly old-fashioned disaster movie. Really its old-fashioned-ness is truly the only surprising thing about this eye-popping 3D spectacle, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, an adept handler of eye-popping 3D spectacle, as anyone accustomed to the "Resident Evil" franchise can tell you, plus some aspects of film fandom, let you know continuously.
The destroyed-by-volcanic-eruption-in-ancient-times capital of scotland - Pompeii will be as old and venerated a cinematic subject as Frankenstein’s monster and train robberies. Working from a script by Janet Scott Batchler and Lee Batchler and others (the never-realized Pompeii project that Roman Polanski abandoned many years back were to be from the Robert Harris novel), Anderson offers up a narrative device older still, a wealthy-girl/poor-boy variant that finds doe-eyed tycoon’s daughter Cassia (Emily Browning) falling hard for just a Britannia-imported slave gladiator known for a bit only as “The Celt,” but later revealed to possess the mighty name of Milo (Kit Harington, so ripped and buff about make any ordinary man’s resolve to access a fitness center more melt right puddle of futility). Milo’s a horse whisperer, that helps him get closer to the woman, who often seems near equine complaints. His more immediate problem is the next arena grapple with a noble, promised-to-be-freed fighter named Atticus. While Cassia’s more immediate problem is the Roman Senator Corvus, come to bargain together with her father, and determined to create a wife outside of Cassia who, inside words of Jean Hagen in "Singin' in the Rain," “caint staaaaaand him.”
Anyway, wouldn’t you recognize it, but Corvus have also been responsible for the Roman battalion that slaughtered Milo’s family several rice. That’s how things operate in ancient cities planning to get slathered in volcanic ash in movies. Kiefer Sutherland incorporates a hell of your time playing the relentlessly villainous Corvus—you need really strong passions when you’re gonna stick to your needs petty personal grudges all the while fireballs are battering those near you, therefore it makes perfect sense. Why Sutherland thought i would filter his villainy through Boris Karloff impersonation is anyone’s guess—it’s significantly less if the children are gonna get it—but what is, I used to be entertained.
Somewhat less entertaining is the fake-knowingness from the cliché dialogue, as every time a piggish slave-buyer complains “You dragged me out of perfectly acceptable brothel just for this,” ar ar ar. As much bloodletting as happens in this movie—for you’s quite a bit of it ahead of the volcano action (presaged with a lot of building foundational cracks and the like) gets underway—the movie is otherwise relentless in its wholesomeness. There’s more real depravity on the screen as well as in the soul of Cecil B. De Mille’s 1932 "The Sign from the Cross" than there exists here. However, the action scenes are choice, as soon as the clouds of ash and shooting fire and churning seas launch, "Pompeii" achieves a momentum that the majority of sensationalist studio fare can’t touch. By the end with the movie one senses that Anderson and company were getting a small bit more, particularly in the, you recognize, profundity department. But the civilians sitting a row in front of me just giggled with the movie’s final shot, because, well I guess you’ve heard the saying “I wouldn’t be caught dead like that.” Tough crowd!
