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A Balasaur Score of 46 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 5.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 27%, Metacritic 41/100. Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do. Most of the 2,627 2010s action movies in this catalog score higher. Streaming on Netflix.
Synopsis
In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.
Ratings
IMDb5.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes27%
Metacritic41/100
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
3,452 audience votes
Key crew
- Paul W. S. AndersonDirector
- Janet Scott BatchlerScreenplay
- Lee BatchlerScreenplay
- Michael Robert JohnsonScreenplay
- Clinton ShorterOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Kit HaringtonMilo
- Emily BrowningCassia
- Adewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeAtticus
- Kiefer SutherlandCorvus
- Carrie-Anne MossAurelia
- Jared HarrisSeverus
- Jessica LucasAriadne
- Sasha RoizProculus
- Currie GrahamBellator
- Joe PingueGraecus
- Ron KennellThe Weasel
- Rebecca RobertsMilo's Mother
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Themes
lavagladiatorarenagladiator fightnatural disasterromanforbidden loveancient romedisasterslavetown in panicvolcanic eruption