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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 22 Feb 2014

While...a pleasure only in the guiltiest of senses, if you're willing to leave your brain in the lobby it can be giddily amusing as an exercise…

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By Kevin Carr (1,610) for Fat Guys at the Movies (419) on 22 Feb 2014

Pompeii is a disaster movie and a disastrous movie, but the ending is pretty doggoned spectacular, making it worth catching on the big screen…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 22 Feb 2014

I'm not sure Juno's tit! is the best way to evoke period authenticity, but By the hymen of Olivia Newton-John! was already taken by Will Ferrell…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 22 Feb 2014

With fireballs falling from the sky, it's catastrophic - in more ways than one…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 22 Feb 2014

It's a spectacle, all right -- but mostly just of a lot of people, some of whom should know better, making an utter ash of themselves…

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By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 21 Feb 2014

Elicits a genuine curiosity to learn more about Pompeii, since one has so much free time to ponder the story's historical underpinnings whilst…

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By Julian Roman (454) for MovieWeb (460) on 21 Feb 2014

Pompeii is not going to have teenage girls swooning a la Titanic, but works as an action and disaster film…

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By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 21 Feb 2014

If you were hoping 'Pompeii' would ditch the lava in exchange for nonsensical political and romantic melodrama, Paul W.S…

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By Annlee Ellingson (847) for L.A. Biz (397) on 21 Feb 2014

Rife with clichés from a roll call of high-concept blockbusters that came before it, from Gladiator to Titanic to Roland Emmerich's disaster oeuvre…

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By Jake Cole (292) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 21 Feb 2014

If nothing else, Pompeii is so unindicative of Paul W.S. Anderson's style that it at least confirms he has one…

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By Katherine Monk (493) for Canada.com (402) on 21 Feb 2014

Anderson makes us wait, and wait, for the big visual effects payoff…

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By Kirk Baird (274) for Toledo Blade (302) on 21 Feb 2014

One of history's worst calamity's becomes a movie mashup of Titanic's doomed love and Gladiator's sword-and-sandal arena combat, with an erupting…

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By Jim Vejvoda (203) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 21 Feb 2014

The visual effects, which only become more important as the film progresses, vary in quality…

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By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 21 Feb 2014

As gaudy genre uproar goes, this isn't bad…

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By Drew Hunt (128) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 21 Feb 2014

Narrative has never been Anderson's strength; the story here is a corny overhaul of James Cameron's already-corny Titanic…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for CraveOnline (813) on 21 Feb 2014

At the risk of sacrificing my critical integrity, I am forced to admit that Pompeii is a blast…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Grantland (318) on 21 Feb 2014

No matter how much lava is afoot, there's always time to impale one more person with a sword…

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By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 21 Feb 2014

The movie gives off a vibe as if it were written in reverse. After all, Anderson and his screenwriters had a slam-bang finale…

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By Ben Kendrick (300) for ScreenRant (1,013) on 21 Feb 2014

A clumsy character drama that turns one of history's most interesting and heart-breaking natural disasters into a tiresome and unmoving cinematic…

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By R. Emmet Sweeney (27) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 21 Feb 2014

The closing images-of a self-annihilating, all-consuming passion that will be preserved for centuries-[obliterate] the line between the ridiculous…

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