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Summary: Good Conan ripoff!
Review: This film is fun, plain and simple. It doesn't take itself too seriously and thats okay. However it is more like a homage to the CONAN films than a prequel to THE MUMMY which is all the better for this film. The Rock will be in movies for awhile mark my words. Bring on THE SCORPION KING 2: THE IRON WARRIOR or something liek that.
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Summary: What Scorpion King?
Review: This movie was THE funniest film I have seen in ages. I should actually have given it 5 stars, because the Rock was great:his comedic timing is brilliant, and the fact that this isn't a comedy made it even funnier. As far as genre goes, as spawn of the `Mummys' it is in keeping with the franchise, though more along the lines of `The Mummy 2':having fun with the macro-budget and coming up with bizarrely incoherent CGI elements. I don't want to give too much away, just bear in mind that this is a seperate story (NOT a prelude to The Mummy 2), but give it a go- who cares if it's entertaining for all the wrong reasons?
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Summary: Terrible B-movie
Review: The first few minutes set the tone. In the opening scene, the Rock shoots someone with an arrow, and they fly out of the room like they were hit with a scud missile. This movie is similar to the early hercules B-movies. A bunch of people running around in loin cloths, lots of exotic unrealistic weapons and no plot. If you enjoy campy muscle flicks, get a Conan movie, they are much better than this advertisement for the Rock.
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Summary: Do you smell what the Rock is cooking?
Review: I do, and the stench is putrid.Just wonderful, two hours of my life I will never get back. If you want a GOOD wrestler crossover movie, go rent Hulk Hogan's Suburban Commando. It made me laugh a lot when I was in third grade, so what the hey.
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Summary: A light barbarian
Review: A spin-off from the Mummy series, 'The Scorpion King' is a very different movie from those that gave it life. This action pack from Chuck Russell doesn't hold the Indiana-Jones style that made 'The Mummy' a hit; instead it seems more like a pre-teen no-brainer that barely can qualify for a decent action movie. The action/comedy formula that was the best feature in 'The Mummy' is not here. Although comparisons are not entirely fair in this case. This movie is a lot more action and less fantasy. Basically, it tries to play a very old formula: swords, beasts, warriors, babes, and the always-present comedy sidekick. It's true, The Rock may not be Lawrence Olivier, but his charisma is clearly seen in the character of Mathayus. He is very good, now the movie... well, it could've been A LOT better. The editorial review is absolutely right when it says that 'The Scorpion King' steals from a lot of better movies. It seems to me that the intention was to do a megahit like 'Conan the Barbarian'. But how can you do this when you HAVE to make it PG-13? It just can't be done. With no explicit sex or violence and not even a drop of blood in combat, it's not enough the fact alone that you are The Rock. This genre's lovers are know for their insatiable bloodlust, and the movie falls terribly short in this aspect and just doesn't deliver anything else that compensates for it. In a world where 'Conan' was considered an expensive champagne, 'The Scorpion King' would be nothing but a light beer.
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Summary: Doesn't achieve even its modest goals
Review: There's no question that Scorpion King was never meant to be anything more than a summer action flick -- pure cotton candy, no substance at all. But, sadly, so many films in recent years have done a *so* much better job of that task that its difficult to understand why this half-hearted attempt was so commercially successful. Unfortunately, summer audiences may well have doomed us all to Scorpion King 2, Scorpion King 3, Son of the Scorpion King, ad infinitum.
The plot was shallow and derivative, but no-one is watching this movie for plot anyway. The acting was ham-handed, at beast, but no-one cares about the acting anyway. The astonishing thing is that those areas which *should* be the outstanding hallmark of a good summer film -- intriguing visuals, fine special effects, emotional tension, dramatic scoring -- were accomplished with just as little panache as the rest of the movie. The fight scenes were, frankly, boring. Close-ups of glistening abdominal muscles may rivet the attention once, but after thirty or forty seconds of nothing but dimly fire-lit oily biceps, you begin to wonder what the heck is going on with the fight itself. The 'romance' was a hackneyed afterthought. Fine. But couldn't we at least have been treated to something stimulating about that afterthought? Two vague kisses and a fade to black -- not much to write home about. And the "special effects" were abysmylly forgettable. No, skip this one. Wait for the new Conan flick instead.
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Summary: What we have here is violence and sexual teasing.
Review: Wrestling superstar the Rock made his debut on screen as a centaur-like half man/half scorpion in The Mummy Returns, but how did his character rise to power? For fans to be eager to find out, the answer arrived in The Scorpion King. The Rock is Mathayus, a muscle-bound assassin trying to save his people. A ruthless warlord is marching across the desert, able to conquer any foe, thanks to the premonitions of a beautiful sorceress. Mathayus must kill the soothsayer, but one look at the half-dressed Cassandra and he can't bring himself to do it, so he kidnaps her, and typically, there is the swords and sorcery, which ends with an inevitable showdown between the Rock's character and the head cutthroat who murdered his brother. This film relies on a barrage of violence and many fatalities, plus there is faulty spirituality, which includes polytheism and Cassandra slipping into trance-like states, using the equivalent of a Ouija board to summon visions. There is cheap titillation and peekaboo nudity among the film's sexual teases. We have vengeful killing machine and occultic heroine, and they are an odd pair indeed. This is not really an appropriate film for the target audience - 14 year old boys. Try something else more palatable and less violent.
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Summary: It's A Wrestling Movie
Review: The Scorpion King met my expectaions head-on.
It's a wrestling movie. I expected no less.
Starring the wrestler The Rock in the role that he played in last year's The Mummy Returns, The Scorpion King is actually a prequel to that better action film. Also starring Michael Clarke Duncan in a role that doesn't seem fit for him or his distinct character.
The Rock actually isn't as bad an actor as one might think.
Has anybody seen Arnold Schwarzenegger's performance early in his career in Hercules In New York? Classic camp.
This is undeniably camp but not of the same kind.
Hercules In New York didn't take itself seriously, this does, and it's sort of hard to believe that The Mummy comes right after this.
There are scenes in this film that look anything but old.
Maybe odd, but not old. There's a new action scene every few minutes and some of the fighting scenes start repeating themselves. You have probably heard about The Rock being the next Arnold Schwarzenegger. Forget it. This movie would have bombed had it not had a tie-in with the much more successful Mummy films.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: The fighting scenes are about the only thing good about this movie. The music was a horrible mix to the movie. The acting was horrible and the only interesting on was the Sorceress. The so called Scorpian King has great abs and that's about it. I would give it less, but I actually like the plot they were trying to tell but it was the wrong actors and actresses picked. So sorry you get 3 stars. I would say wait until this movie is on sale somewhere else....dont buy it.
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Summary: A fun adventure flick
Review: The Scorpion King is a fun action adventure breakthrough for the Rock. It's about a brave warrior (The Rock) who has been giving jewls by a desperate leader of a small army to kill a beautiful sorceress (Kelly Hu). They believe they'ed have a better chance against a ruthless warlord (Steven Brand) with her dead, as he uses her gift to see the future to forsee the battles he's gonna have. As it's easier getting his men into war knowing they're gonna have victory. The Rock captures the sorceress but of course falls in love with her so he decides to just kill the warlord instead as he owes him for killing his brother anyway. He befriends a Nubian leader ( (Michael Clarke Duncan) to join in the battle. The result is a action packed adventure film that has minor flaws but is still well made. Some of the action original but it steals some from other movies too. For instance there's a action sequence that was stolen from Indiana Jones and the temple of doom where the hero is running behind a giant golden drum that's rolling alongside him as protection from some bad guys firing at him. Another problem and the biggest for me is the fact that there's no sign of the Scorpion King becoming evil, he doesn't act vicious, he's mostly cocky. Doesn't seem like the type of guy to make a deal with an evil god either like he does in the Mummy Returns which this film takes place before. The Scorpion King in that seems more like an alta-universe version of the Scorion King from the one here. Well anyway if you ignore that this is still a good movie with the Rock showing signs of being a big action star. I think it's a much better movie than Conan:The Barbarian actually.
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