Movie Review: Pompeii

It's bad... It's really bad.

What? You want more? 

Fine...

So yeah, as is, or should be, apparent from from the above, I do not like this movie. Like, at all. So here we go with the simple plot and we'll talk about why this is a horrendous piece of "film" afterwards. So Kit Harrington (I literally forgot a lot of details about this movie because they were easily forgotten) is a slave sold to some big time guy in Pompeii that runs an arena. At one point, the caravan stopped because a horse was hurt. Harrington helps put the horse out of him misery and kills it. Yes, this is an important plot point, because the character Browning plays sees him do this and is drawn to him..... For... whatever reason. Naturally he is thrown into the arena to fight other people and potentially earn his freedom one day. This goes on for a while and the movie drags because not much is happening. Then an evil Senator comes over and the volcano explodes. Harrington goes to try and get a woman he "connected" with him. Over a dead horse.

So I might not have done the best explaining the plot, but really that just shows how much I hate it. I almost always remember movie plots, but not this one. It terribly tries to combine elements from Titanic and Gladiator. For the first act of the movie, I thought that they were attempting to merely remake Gladiator because the volcano was hardly ever mentioned. You know the story of Pompeii? I'm assuming that the filmmakers at least kinda knew it. It's pretty fucking incredible and you'd think that it would be a focal point of the movie. That's not the way that they went though and it is rather unfortunate that they decided to focus on what should be a subplot to the volcano. A romantic plot. And even this is horribly done. First off, the two met each other once and it was brief, but Harrington knows that from the whole ten minutes of interaction, that she's the one. So that's bad. But regardless of that, the sound editing is AWFUL. The acting is AWFUL. Kit Harrington is the lone bright spot and really I think that is just because I like Jon Snow so much. Other than that, there is absoultely NO reason to like this movie. 

1.5 Over done love stories out of 10