The only good thing about this movie is it's better than a infomercial for toilet cleaner . I had DVR'ed the movie and found that with the sound turned off it wasn't half bad , with sound it's less than half bad . I was checking on IMDb for where this was filmed but couldn't find it .It looks like California . If it was really Pompeii then travel must have been 80 % of the budget . Leaving 15% for food and 5% for screenplay and scripting . I do give the actors credit for trying though . And the choice of actors for the Mother and daughter was good . They were good for the eyes , both are attractive but all the actors were stiff and not convincing as being people trapped during an eruption .

I like Adrian Paul so I suffered through this. The worst acting and special effects I have ever seen. So disappointed. The acting was so wooden and dialogue so cheesy it needed a barrel of wine to go with it. Maybe the barrel of wine would dull the pain. I am wondering how Adrian Paul and John Rhys-Davies lent their names to such an obviously subgrade project. Especially Rhys-Davies who has been in some really big blockbuster movies. What exactly is that thought process? The base material is not so bad it's a good idea, but it needed to be executed in a different manner. There were lots of holes and contradictions scientifically as well. I often wonder what actors are thinking before they take on any given project. For this one, the main motivation had to be money because I can't see any of them thinking this was a good project after a script was submitted to them.

Seriously. If you set out to make the worst movie ever you could not do a better job than this. Even the workman-like acting and confusing accent of Adrian Paul, the commanding presence of John Rhys-Davies and the awesome bust of the lovely Georgina Beedle could not save this travesty of a movie. Truly one of the most appalling things ever committed to film. There are so many things wrong with it that it boggles the mind. It makes a Troma film seem positively Shakespearean. Where to start? The writing is probably the worst part of this, the story horrible, the "science" idiotic and the dialogue just plain stupid,followed by the wretched "sets." No doubt hundreds of dollars were spent on sets and special effects. I honestly felt embarrassed for the producers of this travesty, it was so bad. Stay away.

Okay. I've been a member of IMDb for a long time but i've never written a review until now. That's because this movie is, sadly, an epic failure! i know it's a B-rated movie and i know it's a budget movie but there are so many better B-rated movies out there!! The question is, why is this one so catastrophically bad?I could not stand watching it for 30 minutes, heck it was just 13 minutes and my brain started seeping through my ears and my eyes were going half blind by what i've seen so far.DO NOT WASTE PRECIOUS TIME WATCHING THIS MOVIE....instead go and walk your dog or feed your cat or just lie down on your bed and look at the ceiling, trust me, thats a million times better.