Well at least it's not another Batman/ SpiderMan/ Wolfman Whatever Movie.

Seriously are there no writers left in Hollywood? Why does every movie now have to be sequels of other movies all based on comic books?

Seriously Hollywood needs to die already. Some other country needs to take over the world's mass media because we sure suck at it.

Is it worth my wife seeing it for Jon Snow's oiled torso?

Hey! Slog lost my comment. Here it goes again:

I was confused when the storyline in your description didn't match the Robert Harris book. Of course, it wasn't based on the book. Looking into it, Roman Polanski started making the most expensive European movie ever based on the book, but it was cancelled because of a labor strike. It's too bad we ended up with this instead.

The book's quite entertaining and would have made a great movie.

Krakatoa, East of Java is the standard to which all volcano disaster moves must rise.

Does Seattle even have a crappy TV movie of Rainer erupting and killing everyone? If not, then perhaps Paul W. S. Anderson should fix that. I can imagine a scene where the Space Needle is tipped at a 45 degree angle over the Sound while ravenous orcas circle below. Then a jolt causes the people who were clinging on to start falling. Nom, nom, nom! Bloodbath!

A volcano kills everyone?!?

Hey! How about a spoiler alert?

@2 inquiring, uh, minds want to know.

So, a blend of Spartacus & Gladiator, and Kiefer fails to rise to the levels of Joaquin, Olivier & Ustinov?
Sadly, the availability of affordable CGI allows people to make large scale crappy movies that would have previously never made it beyond a story pitch.

The problem with Seattle is that we picked a relatively safe place to build it. In a realistic Mt. Rainier movie, about the most exciting things you'd get to see are a lahar wiping out Orting and a few inches of ash falling on Ellensburg and Yakima. The closest we'll get to a Seattle vs the volcano movie is Dante's Peak.

@5 Not quite the same, but I believe the Space Needle cracked and fell over in 10.5, the earthquake movie.

Who would guess the director of the Resident Evil movies wouldn't be able to make better than a middling movie.

Seattle was obliterated by a kaiiju in Pacific Rim. So there's that threat.

Everything that was ever needed to be said in a sword-and-sandals movie, which is not a hell of a lot, was said by Steve Reeves fifty years ago.

Darn. I was really looking forward to Kit Harington's abs, but this movie sounds like a mess. I'll just have to watch his abs on video later. *sigh*

I'm a sucker for ancient Rome CGI. A real sucker.

But this is a movie that squanders every last bit of the good will that its audiences throw at it.

Is there a movie by Paul W.S. Anderson that this description can't be applied to?

If watching Kit Harrington's abs is the only draw, save yourself $20 and watch the haircut scene in Game of Thrones. It's in the first episode, fer chrissakes. (You even get topless Robb and Greyjoy thrown in too.)