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Summary: Introducing the Rock
Review: Movies like THE SCORPION KING are great fun to watch. I doubt that anyone really expected to see a movire that was plot or character driven. This film had two purposes: to be the latest reincarnation of the spear and sandal spectacular that Steve Reeves popularized back in the 60s and to showcase the muscularity and bashing prowesss of Hollywood's newest action hero, the Rock (Dwayne Johnson). Part of the fun of THE SCORPION KING is to count the number or times director Chuck Russell borrows (ahem) from previous action films. Besides the aforementioned Steve Reeves epics, Russell uses scenes straight out of the Indiana Jones trilogy and THE MUMMY, which also had The Rock in a bit part. The plot is nonsense of course. Ditto for costuming, architecture, and historical accuracy. But no one goes to see action films of ancient empires to quibble over anachronisms. The Rock is Mathayas, a hired assassin whose job it is to kill a sorcerer. Unfortunately, for his mission, the sorcerer turns out to be a sexy, leggy sorceress (Kelly Hu), with whom Mathayas falls predictably in love. Along the way, there are sword fights every two or three minutes. The special effects are first rate, and despite the legions of soldiers killed, no one really seems to possess any traits that would cause one to mark his passing with true emotion. In movies like this, the fun of watching the emergence of a new action star unfortunately is built on the oldest of Hollywood's gimmicks: the dispatching of hordes of extras in so a bloodless manner that the viewer soon overlooks the rather quaint notion that extras are people too. If Hollywood ever learns to build up an action hero without resorting to gratuitous bloodless violence, then it will be the first time for that.
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Summary: Aargh...please...somebody gouge out my eyes...
Review: I was back in my hometown visiting for the holidays when some friends of mine rented this DVD. Against my better judgment, I decided to watch this atrocity with them. To be blunt, the creators of this film did just about everything wrong, from horrendous acting, to an inconsistent musical score, to outright ripping off scenes from Indiana Jones and Conan the Barbarian. The films also lacks any form of uniqueness and originality, and suspension of disbelief is non-existent. Not that I expected much from this film, I figured it would be one of those types of entertaining films that are watched just for fun and don't require any intellectual investment on the part of the viewer, the kind you'd watch after coming home from a long, hard day at work. Unfortunately, this film fails even in this category. It falls into the "Is this ever going to end?" category. The only reason I watched the whole thing was to not be rude to the people I was watching it with. I feel like I should be solving physics problems now to make up the IQ points that this film robbed from me. If you haven't seen The Scorpion King yet, save yourself the agony and skip it.
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Summary: AMAZING...LY HORRIBLE!!!!!
Review: I know, there are some people with IQ lower than their shoe size that like this movie, but I am not one of them so I make my opening statement being...Was the director's name...Ed Wood? (For those who do not know Ed Wood he was the director of the named "Worst movie of the Century/Golden Turkey Award winner, Plan Nine From Outer Space) First of all I've heard many people talk about the "Amazing Swordplay." It may be because I fence, I thought the so called "sword play" was horrible. I mean...It was pretty much, "Oh, you've come to try to attack me, let me hit you with this big piece of lead and you come and I hit you...etc. etc." Now the "acting." When watching the movie I began wishing "The Rock" were in fact, a rock. It would certainly be FAR more interesting, and fun to watch. I know it's mostly because he's a wrestler, but still. Suggestion to the director: How about you see if some one can act BEFORE casting him/her! The only slightly good thing was the fact that it was in a desert, and uh...I think I saw a plot line once or twice! The dumbest line in the movie award goes to: "And then she says, 'It's not the size of the hump that counts, but the motion of the camel!'"
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Summary: If you love Egyptology, this is great fun
Review: I am a great fan of the Egyptians. I love the "Mummy" movies, and this is great as an almost "prequel". I'm sure that lots of artistic license has been taken in terms of historical accuracy, but who cares. This movie is fun, fast-paced, and you get to see lots of handsome, muscular guys running around. Plus, the outtakes are very informative, and funny! Good movie for willful suspension of disbelief!
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Summary: The Rock: Master Showman
Review: I was a wrestling fan long before The Scorpion King ever came out, and I have to say that Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, is a master showman in whatever medium he chooses. As Mathayus, the Arkadian assassin, he is a force to be reckoned with, hacking his way through his enemies with nary a backward glance. His one weak spot is the Sorceress (Kelly Hu) he was meant to kill, but when he realizes the depth of his feelings for her, he will do anything to protect her. Dwayne Johnson manages to combine both these elements into one film without making the story into a total joke in the process. I would like to point out that this movie is not for everyone. If you're one of those out there who are looking for a film that is gravid with meaning and emotion, then The Scorpion King isn't for you. If you just want to see an action-packed film that happens to have some fine acting in it as well, then by all means, grab your wallet out and buy it. It's your choice.
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Summary: AWESOME!,AWESOME!,AWESOME!,AWESOME!,AWESOME!,AWESOME!
Review: HEY!! I ABSOULTOULY LUV THIS MOVIE SOOOOOOOOO MUCH!! IT IS SOOOO ACTION PACKED AND EXCITING AND BESIDES, THE ROCK IS A MAJOR [teen idol]!
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Summary: Decent but could have been better
Review: Im sure the 7-15 yr old WWE fan will hail the Rock as being the greatest actor of all time and will have this as the greatest movie of all time in their minds but, then again most of these kids lack the mental capacity to rationalize things in an objective way. I'm a wrestling fan as well, I like the entertainment value of it but, thats not going to blind me from criticizing this movie for lacking good content. First off, is this movie supposed to a serious action flick like Conan? I think not. It seemed that it was trying to be Similar to Indiana Jones with the occasional comedic skits along with the action however, at least Indiana Jones put some Historical Perspective along with a serious overtone to its story unlike this film which lacks that type of continuaty. None of the characters, scenery, or props are believable in this film. It all seems like a water down version of Indiana Jones. Overall this movie lacks an identity of the genre it wants to belong to. It does the comedy and action sequences decently but, not anything to take notice of.
The rock did well in this flick so Im not going to put him down. Just wish the script and cinematography were done better.
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Summary: Good Acting,Good Casting,but to historicly fiction
Review: Its kinda hard to see this as pre-qual to The Mummy...
Pretty good set was used if not the real thing, to re-create an anciat egyption city but it does look to me that they hired bodybuilders and pornstars to repesent the guards and the egyption ladies just to save a few bucks.
Alough this copy the useal action/fighting ending fight seqence
Witch is Boss vs. Boss and 1 Army vs. a nother Army, good guy almost loseing but good guy getting the big finish...
All in All it could have been better,,, but its someting that kinda gets old after a few times.
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Summary: My eyes, my eyes!!
Review: I was thinking this film would be on par with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns but not only was it no where near the same in special effects, but it's absolutely horrible in every respect. The acting stunk, the sets were small like an episode of Xena, the special effects were nearly non-existent, and it was horribly boring. Conan the Barbarian from 20 years ago was far better than this piece of trash. The Rock has the body for this kind of film but his acting talents and his charisma are disappointingly tragic. This film had the set-up and the plotline to be a fantastic fantasy film but the producers decided to simply milk the connection between this movie and The Mummy Returns (kinda the way the producers milked Aliens 3 from Aliens 2) and spent nothing in terms of sets and special effects. Please, people, don't waste a single second watching this total letdown.
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Summary: Live and Let Die almost ruined by this piece of trash
Review: What does the title above mean? well if you all are familar with James Bond moves you'd know that Roger Moore's first (and best) outing as 007 was called Live and Let Die. Scorpion King RIPS OFF THE MAIN PLOT worse than Never say Never again ripped off Thunderball. First lets start with the similarities...In scorpion king as sorceress (kelly hu) is responsible for all the decision making for the king so he can win his wars...In live and let die the main Heroin trafficer known as Mr.Big uses a fortune teller named solitare (jane seymour) to help him find out how certain events will turn out. Now heres where even more similar instances occur The Rock sleeps with the sorceress making her powers dissappear just like in live in let die where Bond sleeps with Solitare rendering her powers for forseeing events useless as well. At the end both the Rock and Roger Moore get the girl of course...and everything in between is fight scenes only difference is live and let die had voodoo as a back drop and the scorpion king had the desert as their's. I would of thought Universal screens this [junk] before releasing it. However I wouldnt be suprised if they didn't due to this movie being a semi remake of a classic.
So what did we learn today kiddies? obviously something universal didnt when the bone heads that ripped off thunderball made never say never again and that is DONT REMAKE JAMES BOND MOVIES!!! If you've already seen Live and Let Die dont bother seeing this you already know the whole plot. And if you havent seen either see Live and Let Die as that is a classic!
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