Pompeii 🎥 2014 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In northern Britannia, AD 62, Roman soldiers led by General Quintus Attius Corvus wipe out a tribe of Celtic horsemen. Corvus personally kills the parents of a boy named Milo. Being the only survivor, Milo is later captured by slave traders. Seventeen years later, in Londinium in AD 79, the grown Milo becomes a popular gladiator. His owner Graecus brings the gladiators to Pompeii. Also going there are Cassia and her servant Ariadne, who return after a year in Rome. Cassia becomes enamored of Milo after witnessing him perform a mercy kill of a critically injured horse; she reveres this as an act of kindness.

Her parents are the city governor Severus and his wife Aurelia. One of their servants is later swallowed up when a quake from Mount Vesuvius opens up the ground under him. In Pompeii, Milo develops a rivalry with Atticus, a champion gladiator who, by Roman law, will be given his freedom after he earns one more victory. The gladiators are shown off at a party where Corvus, now a Senator, announces that he will invest in Severus’ plans to rebuild Pompeii. It is then revealed that Cassia originally left Rome to escape Corvus’ unreciprocal advances. When an earthquake causes some horses to become anxious, Milo is permitted to calm one down.

He then takes Cassia on a ride. Being aware that they cannot be together, he returns her to the villa. Not recognizing Milo, Corvus is ready to kill him, but Cassia pleads for his life. Milo is lashed for his actions, and Atticus admits respect for his rival. In the Amphitheatre of Pompeii, to punish Milo, Corvus orders him killed in the first battle, and trainer Bellator convinces Graecus to execute Atticus as well. The two men, and other slaves, are chained to rocks as, in an attempt to recreate Corvus’ victory over the Celts, gladiators are unleashed upon the slaves.

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