Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New – 5/29/14] | Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- Marina Antunes @ Quiet Earth
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Pompeii knows what it is: a somewhat cheesy second-level mix of Spartacus, Gladiator and Titanic…
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: “Pompeii” is a disaster movie and a disastrous movie, but the ending is pretty doggoned spectacular, making it worth catching on the big screen.
- Bill Clark @ From The Balcony
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: … this is a gladiator movie encased within a highly coincidental love triangle wrapped up with a final, laughably inaccurate image that recalls the finale of “Edward Scissorhands.”
- [New – 5/29/14] | M. Enois Duarte @ High-DefDigest.com
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: [W]e are left wondering why these characters don’t simply abandon their relatively puny melodramas, if only for the basic goal of survival.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: With fireballs falling from the sky, it’s catastrophic – in more ways than one.
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Pompeii is refreshingly simple and uncluttered with superfluities. Completely unencumbered by anything deep or pretentious, it’s the occasional cheese that makes this experience fun.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Ross Miller @ Thoughts On Film
- Excerpt: It unfortunately treats everything with such po-faced seriousness, including its gargantuan concluding set-piece that quite literally looms over the whole film before exploding into action, that it’s a lot less fun than it rightfully should be.
- Nell Minow @ The Movie Mom
- Frank Ochieng @ Focus of New York Magazine
- Excerpt: Anderson’s misguided molten-driven melodrama Pompeii is not as explosive in conception as one would imagine. Pompeii is a clumsy and convoluted hybrid of Oscar-winning spectacles Gladiator and Titanic that never quite gels as a cohesive doomsday drama.
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: By no stretch of the imagination a good movie, [but] if you’re in the right frame of mind it can provide a couple of hours of brainless amusement.
- Mel Valentin @ ScreenInvasion.com
- Excerpt: Another sub-par effort from so-called vulgar auteurist P.W.S. Anderson.
- Phil Villarreal @ COED.com
- Andrew Wyatt @ Look/Listen (St. Louis Magazine)
- Excerpt: The one element that nudges Pompeii from forgettable to intriguing trash is the unrelenting bleakness of its vision.
