10 Worst Disaster Movies Of All Time

10. Pompeii

Pompeii (the film, not the historical event) has a very apt tagline. There certainly is no warning or escape when it comes to Paul W. S. Anderson's boring dud of a historical disaster film.

Pompeii is less about Mount Vesuvius erupting, and more about Kit Harington and Emily Browning falling in love. And this is where it fails.

In the pursuit of a laughable love story, the film forgets what people paid money to see. This isn't helped the vast majority of the action sequences centring around sword fighting and not the volcano erupting.

That being said, when Vesuvius does erupt, it looks spectacular. Many of the aerial shots are fantastic, and add a real sense of scale to the action. But this action eventually becomes a drag also, as the final set piece goes on for far too long.

Even with some impression action, Pompeii is held back by its clichéd script and poor direction. It all feels woefully misguided.

After he was out of press junket mode, Harington gave his real opinion on the film, commenting that it was more of a disaster than the actual event. He isn't wrong.