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This miniseries did not deserve such a low rating :it is thoroughly entertaining and there's never a dull moment.Obviously the screenplay inevitably borrows from Bulwer Lytton's "last days of Pompeii"(the volcano,the Christians),but also from Lewis Wallace (the heroes lose everything ,and the Marco/Tiberius relationship sometimes leads into Ben Hur/Messala territory ,but in the end ,it succeeds in making Tiberius a non-cardboard character ,not a small feat in such a context).The hero,his fiancée and her family are virtuous people,the villains are delightful ,from the evil swindler in love with the heroine to his nymphomaniac wife who sleeps with gladiators and covets both the hero and even his girl (scene of the bath).There is also a riddle,a detective story,a political plot ,the screenplay has a little something for everyone.And nobody escapes by boat,which was impossible,the guide in Pompeii would tell you so ,should you visit it some day.

For a non-Italian audience,the only really famous actor is seventy-year -old Giuliano Gemma ,cast as Emperor Titus ,but unfortunately he 's got only two scenes.

Oh,and the scene when the heroine tries to free her squeeze with an axe is borrowed from "Titanic".

A little something for everybody ,I told you so!

This is so very bad. The ADR is on par with old Japanese Godzilla movies. The troops are sent to fight rebels out east, and for a second I thought "okay, there were uprisings in Judea around then, maybe they did some research" nope, just generic rebels I assume somewhere in Italy near Pompeii. The quality of this series can best be described by the one soldier's speech being greeted by shouts from his soldiers that sound like five guys pooling their voices together, but there's maybe 20 people in the shot. So maybe they could only afford the actors for the shot and had to make due without them for the later voice over. My favorite part was the commander telling his troops to wait for his signal, then he says "not yet" three or four times, Mel Brooks made this kind of joke more believable in Robin Hood Men In Tights. If you want a good laugh then this is the series for you. I honestly am only watching it to get as many insights as I can to pre-eruption Pompeii for my time travel D&D canpaign.