One of the greatest cinematic achievements of the 21st century.

| Mar 3, 2025

A disaster movie with romantic appeal, with tragedy, like Titanic (1997), but more Balkan and action-oriented. Oh. And there's a gladiators sub-plot... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 7, 2022

Its blunders are aplenty and it’s impossible to take anything the film does seriously.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Why, when an estimated 16,000 lives were lost when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, does Pompeii tell a story about the least interesting of them?

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Aug 18, 2022

By the time the credits started to roll I felt that bad guy Graecus was speaking directly to me when he said, "You dragged me from a perfectly good brothel for this?"

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 1, 2021

Instantly forgettable but more than passable as a diversion; solid B-movie cheese that's like Titanic-lite meets Gladiator-lite.

| Oct 3, 2020

I find Justin Bieber's gangsta' posing more convincing.

| Original Score: 1.0/4.0 | Sep 20, 2020

You know you have a problem when you start rooting for the mountain to win.

| Original Score: D+ | Jul 28, 2020

If you are attending this disaster movie purely for the famous natural disaster it promises to depict, you won't have too many complaints.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 6, 2020

Basically a competent action picture that retreads to the safety of its formulas, primarily because it doesn't have the desire, much less the thought, to pursue more challenging avenues.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 23, 2020

The legion of fans of Kit Harington will enjoy filling the time as they wait for that first episode of the 4th season of Game of Thrones.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 31, 2019

Some may find it divertingly entertaining but for fans of the genre it's been there, done that, got the toga.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 11, 2019

Occasionally entertaining in its silliness, Pompeii just about avoids total disaster, but even the volcanic spectacle underwhelms in this largely joyless blockbuster.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2019

If the film lacks energy up to this point, it more than makes up for it hereon in, saving this disaster film from being a complete and utter disaster.

| Mar 7, 2019

As the film begins, the camera pans slowly over what appear to be statues, but which turn our to be the petrified remains of the citizens of Pompeii. These are the most multi-dimensional people we see on screen.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 11, 2018

Filmmaker Paul W. S. Anderson's misguided molten-driven melodrama Pompeii is not as explosive in conception as one would imagine based upon its manufactured, boisterous presentation.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 11, 2018

Pompeii is bad, but not at all in the interesting way. It's derivative and tedious, without an original thought in its head on any level.

| Original Score: 2.5/10 | Nov 1, 2018

Besides some impressive technical wizardry, Pompeii lies in Paul W.S. Anderson's list of "let it burn" films.

| Oct 10, 2018

The action sequences alone are jaw dropping, heart racing affairs but flashy stunts and technical wizardry don't always support a story lacking in character development, therefore giving you minimal people to root for.

| Aug 24, 2018

There's not a single gesture that isn't a cliché, not a single line of script that isn't a stage direction or harvested shamelessly from Wikipedia.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 21, 2018