What a beautiful movie!

One of my all time favorites.

Memorable, crazy movie

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

This film is a mock buster that has nothing to do with another film recently released that has "Pompeii" in its title. Asylum did something similar with the "Three Musketeers" a few years back, making a movie with a similar name, but in a different time period.This film follows the same identical plot as all of Asylum disaster films. Family separates. Disaster strikes. Super Dad (Adrian Paul) rescues family. In this film the teen daughter (Georgina Beedle) turns into Bill Nye the science guy to save everyone from a volcano. The acting was Asylum grade.The film answers the question: If 100 monkeys were placed at 100 type writers, could they eventually come up with an Asylum script?The film is overly CG. The early question I have was why did the opening scene contain a view of Rio and then have volcanoes go off somewhere else? The cross at Rio is the most recognized landmark in the world. Then we have John Rhys-Davies as Colonel Dillard, except he is now Carlos Dillard as opposed to Colonel Ralph Dillard from "100 Degrees Below Zero" when Europe was destroyed. Who would notice? cheese film. Not as cheesy as "100 Degrees Below Zero" but it tries.Parental Guide: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity.

Nothing wrong with this film, okay some of it doesn't make any sense, for example why are they the only ones in pompeii, when I can imagine if it lousy with tourists the whole time, and why is the guy out of indiana Jones in charge of an Italian army helicopter. For those who dis this film remember what channel it's on, how cheap it probably was and how much worse most of it's ilk are. it moves quickly, has a pretty girl in it and a good number of explosions. the effects are okay and it sort of makes sense. It's a cheap and cheerful disaster movie, if that's the sort of thing you like (and I do), then cool, watch it, otherwise don't

The only good thing about this movie is it's better than a infomercial for toilet cleaner . I had DVR'ed the movie and found that with the sound turned off it wasn't half bad , with sound it's less than half bad . I was checking on IMDb for where this was filmed but couldn't find it .It looks like California . If it was really Pompeii then travel must have been 80 % of the budget . Leaving 15% for food and 5% for screenplay and scripting . I do give the actors credit for trying though . And the choice of actors for the Mother and daughter was good . They were good for the eyes , both are attractive but all the actors were stiff and not convincing as being people trapped during an eruption .

That it is from The Asylum is a big indicator of what to expect, though they've had a few tolerable exceptions. Apocalypse Pompeii is not quite bad enough to be down there with their bottom-of-the-barrel movies but it is very, very close. Not even the Bulgarian/Naples scenery or John Rhys Davies- who usually is one of the better assets of bad movies- can save it. The movie is edited far too choppily and looks far too drab for us to appreciate the scenery(a shame seeing as there is some beautiful scenery in Bulgaria and Naples). And while Davies is the least bad actor in the cast, he really does do his best, he is sadly wasted with very clumsy dialogue and an insignificant character. When the movie wastes the best and the most well-known actor, that tells you all you know about how truly horrendous the acting is. Adrian Paul in particular is unbearably wooden, carrying Apocalypse Pompeii who no charisma or spark at all. Apocalypse Pompeii joins the already large group of Asylum movies that contains attractive women whose best acting they can come up with is acting vapid. There have been worse special effects, however that's saying very little as the special effects here are dire being poorly textured and very artificial-looking. The dialogue is awkward-sounding and unforgivably dumb, the "snappy" banter making the toes curl. Any attempts at drama is taken to melodramatic, ham-fisted and mawkishly-sentimental-to-giving-you-a-cavity levels. The story is far too ridiculous to be taken seriously and is far too dull to be entertained or engaged with it. The severe lack of thrills, suspense, fun and tension, as well as nobody seeming indifferent to what's happening, makes the atmosphere completely unconvincing to non-existence, an example of a disaster movie with absolutely nothing to it. We don't give a damn about any of the characters either and the director is as flat as a badly made pancake. In conclusion, for a disaster movie Apocalypse Pompeii is an epic disaster with no redeeming values, anything potentially redeeming such as the scenery and a dependable actor like John Rhys-Davies are gone to waste(which is unforgivable). 1/10 Bethany Cox