Rating of
1.5/4
A vollcanic disaster
smeagol - wrote on 05/03/14
Since the brilliant spartacus tv series there seems to be quite a few gladiator movies disguised as other things. i.e the legend of hercules and this one. ,This is basically a gladiator movie centred in pompei, kit harrington( game of thrones) plays the slave gladiator with kither sutherland as the evil roman. cue emily browning as the love interest that he tries to save when the volcano erupts.
You can tell this is a bad movie within a few minutes. kit puts on a decent performance but elsewhere the majority is bad cliche acting bad casting, stolen scenes from other movies . bad dialogue. bad direction and fight scenes and . to many close up wonky annoying camera shots.. they should of hired the spartacus series crew to help and show them how its meant to be done.
saying all that , its entertainment but it does feel like watching a b movie. even some of the special effects dont look right.
disappointing movie of what could of been. a volcanic disaster
