Pompeii

It wasn't the greatest of movies nor was it the worst. To be perfectly honest the film barely made an impression on me; the plot line seemed somewhat confused not to mention unbelievable (I mean who really can hope to out run a volcano). Although I must admit that the action packed fight scenes and some occasional shots of perfectly sculptured pectorals definitely compensated for the obvious flaws.

                       

If you remove the twenty or so minutes of actual fighting within the film, what you’re left with is about a hundred minutes of what could essential be a fairytale. Though the entire thing was littered with improbable scenarios, I found that there were three scenes so ludicrous that I could not help but laugh.

These scenes are in no particular order whatsoever.

Scene 1) The hero (Milo) is chained and must fight a legion of trained gladiators along with his newly acquired accomplice (Atticus- AKA the big black guy who dies because unless its Django, the black guy always dies). Despite the fact that the two are restricted in their movements, they still successfully defeat the multitudes of trained gladiators. Like what the actual fudge! Not only would they have got their arse beat in a more realistic setting, they would not even have managed to kill one man let alone the whole lot of them. Obviously in true Hollywood fashion each trained killer respectfully waited for their turn to be killed cause no one ever fights dirty!

Scene 2) it’s not only men that respect Milo enough to wait before killing him, the volcano (possibly the antagonist in this particular case) really does possess some commendable manners. In the times when a serious discussion is taking place She (cause the volcano is obviously a pissed off woman) would politely quieten down and stop erupting cause you know, that’s just how volcanoes roll -.-

Scene 3) The one thing above all else that really annoyed me though was the one omissions they made through the entire movie and I mean absolutely no-one died from toxic gas inhalation. Like seriously though, there’s a big volcano spewing toxic gas and not one person dies from it. NOT EVEN ONE?

Pretty mediocre film I must say, I think my little sister and her imaginary friends could probably have thought of something more believable but oh well. The abs were most definitely worth it.