'Pompeii', the movie which is a revenge drama with a tinge of romance and dollops of natural disaster is a worth seeing movie for its superb making.
Made with a historical drama, based on the ill-fated Roman city of the same name, movie has been directed by Paul W.S. Anderson's. 'Pompeii'is a far cry from Robert Harris' 2003 novel Yet, the film is distinct and appealing. It's a revenge drama with a tinge of romance and dollops of natural disaster.
Story: The film begins eerily with the camera drooling over fossilized bodies. The stoned images, gruesome and weather-beaten, are accompanied by a quote 'In the darkness some prayed for help, others for death,' attributed to Pliny the Younger'. It claims it is accurate as far as the history and politics of Pompeii at that time.
The film dismisses the plot of the novel and invents its own set of main characters. It follows Milo (Kit Harington), a "Celta slave. He is the last surviving member of his tribe, The Horsemen.'
Story move around as a young child, Milo survived the massacre by being dumped beneath the corpses while he watched his mother and his entire tribe being slaughtered by the corrupt Roman General Corvus (Kiefer Sutherland) and his Aide Proculus (Sasha Roiz).
Seventeen years later, the boy, trained to be a deadly gladiator, is the star performer at the arena in Londinium, the capital of Britanny. Soon his greedy master packs him off to the city of Pompeii to serve as violent entertainment for its blood-hungry citizens.
Meanwhile, Corvus too lands in Pompeii as the Senator of the Emperor Titus and is the deciding factor for investments from Rome. He craftily gets Severus to hand over his daughter in marriage to him.
In the mean time, Milo arrives in Pompeii on the eve of the Vinalia festival and is flaunted to the citizens. The next day, he is expected to fight the local champion - a massive black slave named Atticus who is nearly one last death-match away from earning his freedom.
Script: The script by Janet Scott Batchler, Lee Batchler and Michael Robert Johnson, is crisp and focused. The tension is carefully and precisely mounted to construct the doomsday effect. Though the event is predictable, the look and feel of Glen MacPherson's visuals in 3D is enchanting. They beautifully merge with computer generated special effects of the volcanic eruption, the tsunami and the submerging of the land.
Film: Pompeii
Cast: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Jared Harris, Carrie-Anne Moss, Adewale Akkinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica Lucas and Kiefer Sutherland
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
With inputs from (IANS)
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