2014 · action · adventure · drama
Pompeii (2014)
Directed by Ben Demaree1h 28m2014
When a former Special Ops commando visits Pompeii, his wife and daughter are trapped as Mt. Vesuvius erupts with massive force. While his family fights to survive the deadly onslaught of heat and lava, he enlists his former teammates in a daring operation beneath the ruins of the city of Pompeii.
Our read: Pompeii (2014) (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · adventure · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, measured.
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