Goofs

As Vesuvius erupts, a large gladiator statue topples in the arena. In the first view, a long shot, the statue cracks open across the chest, at the bottom of the rib cage. In the next view, from the perspective of a man about to be crushed, the torso is intact, and the crack is at the statue's neck.

Pontius Pilate committed suicide in Gaul in approximately A.D. 38 and could not have been present in Pompeii during the same year that Mt Vesuvius erupted (A.D. 79).

The central subplot of the meeting with Jesus is impossible, as Pompeii was destroyed after his death in A.D. 79. Given these dates, Flavius would have been a middle aged man, clearly not a young man as portrayed.

The Latin word "flavius" means "blond", but the character of Flavius has curly black hair.