The movie that proved that having ‘Game of Thrones’ stars doesn’t guarantee anything will make it to Netflix

Normally we take advantage of the arrival of titles in the catalog on different platforms to recommend particularly outstanding ones, but sometimes we have to do the opposite and remind you that perhaps you have not seen this film at the time for a good reason. Today we bring you one of those cases, because you already have ‘Pompeya’ available and Netflix.

A disaster on all levels

I know it may seem easy to throw a stone at a film directed by Paul W. S. Andersonbut I’m one of those who believe that maybe he overdid his cinema at the time, especially his funny version of ‘The Three Musketeers’-. Sure, some truly awful movies have it, and “Pompeii” is the worst of them all. Not even the presence at the head of the cast of Kit Haringtona very trendy actor at the time thanks to ‘Game of Thrones’ but who proved here that not being a star beyond that series, prevented his box office slump.

On the one hand, “Pompeya” transforms a tremendous historical event into a story full of clichés in which there is nothing that gives the proposal even the slightest interest. None of the actors stand out for the best, but it’s both Harington and Emily Browning they show a worrying nothingness when it comes to conveying any kind of emotion to the viewer.

Actually, not even its budget of 100 million dollars They look great on screen, since the visual effects get ridiculous in some scenes – in others it’s fair to say they don’t look half bad. This is strange, because Anderson has managed to get by rather easily with less money, but it is that it fails here too. Scattered and repetitive in narration, boring in interpretation and empty in staging. He has everything, but for bad.

It is clear that all this influenced the becoming of ‘Pompeii’ one of the greatest disaster movie flops of all timesince it only raised 117 million, causing multi-million losses to its producers.