Anderson can't help but turn the open - air, urban setting into yet another deathtrap tunnel system, and
CGI aerial shots dot Pompeii's opening stretch, showing the complex grid of roads, narrow streets, and aqueducts which make up a Roman city — and through which, of course, the characters will eventually have to escape.
As in his 2007 film Atonement, Wright can't help but over-decorate with self - conscious tracking
shots and
CGI aerial views, though you can understand his determination to make something which looks more like cinema than Sunday evening TV.