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Operation Scorpio
There's nothing original in The Scorpion King, but this derivative action franchise gets off to a rousing start by cleverly stealing from a lot of better movies. Capitalizing on his brief cameo in The Mummy Returns, Dwayne Johnson (a.k.a. World Wrestling Federation star the Rock) stars as Mathayus, an Akkadian assassin in the age preceding Egyptian pharaohs, who vows to avenge his brother's murder by an undefeated warlord (Steven Brand) prophesied to become the desert-ruling Scorpion King. Their battle for supremacy comprises most of the film's brisk 95-minute running time, punctuated by comic relief from Mathayus's obligatory sidekick (Grant Heslov), romance with a beautiful sorceress (Kelly Hu), and alliance with a massive Nubian (Michael Clarke Duncan) on the eve of their climactic showdown. There's no rhyme or reason to the film's depiction of ancient civilization (the costuming is particularly ludicrous), but the Rock demonstrates adequate action-star potential, and director Chuck Russell (The Mask) wraps it all in a slick, professional package. --Jeff Shannon more
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- Posted: Feb-11-2009
An enjoyable film that got action, comedy and a love story...
Dwayne Johnson plays a natural-born hero called Mathayus... He starts off as an Akkadian mercenary crossing the ancient lands looking for his brother who is slain before his blazing eyes by a Nordic barbarian horde whose name is Memnon... What has kept the vicious tyrant as the absolute conqueror...
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- Posted: Nov-19-2008
A good entertainment for a rainy afternoon!
"Scorpion King" picks up and maintains faithfully the basic structure of the epic tale, but constructed with a smart dose of acidic humour and double sense vignettes. There are common places and stereotypes like the smart young boy and the unerring and opportunistic "fool", the beauty...
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- Posted: Aug-24-2008
NO COMMENT
AS I LIVE IN EUROPE, I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO WATCH THIS BLU RAY DVD.THE FORMAT WAS NORMALLY "ALL REGIONS" BUT I GUESS THAT ONLY THE PEOPLE WITH A REGION 1 APPARATUS COULD WATCH IT. SO I SPENT MY MONEY FOR NOTHING. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT. I WANTED TO SEND IT BACK TO AMAZON BUT FINALLY I CHANGED MY...
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- Posted: Jul-26-2008
Entertaining prequel spin off from "The Mummy Returns" not quite up to that film but still fun
"The Scorpion King" was the first spin-off from Stephen Sommers' sequel "The Mummy Returns" acting as a prequel. This allowed Sommers to tell us a bit more about the fascinating character of the Scorpion King. Although this origin story tidied up different story strands left unanswered in the...
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- Posted: Jun-09-2008
Greatly entertaining.
I like sword fighting movie. This movie has lots of humour and action. Kelly Hu looks beautiful. Even though the plot is not original but the film greatly entertains me.I own it.
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- Posted: May-25-2008
Rocky Miavia
This Guy Pulled The Tights To Beat The Sultan At Wrestlemania 13. This Guy Was scared To Fight Midgets At Wrestlemania 2000. And This guy pinned Vince Mcmahon to win the wwe title. When he Could not pin the Champion Tripple H. This Movie is as entertaining as his Wrestling Career. If You Smell...
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- Posted: Jan-28-2008
Sort of interesting....
Ever heard of The Mummy movies? This movie is supposed to be related to them, but I see no simularities except for the name, which you must see the 2nd Mummy movie for. Unlike The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, The Scorpian King deals with a sharper and less humorous plot. In it, some great muscled...
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- Posted: Jan-21-2008
Accomplished what it set out to do
This film is no epic panorama. It was not meant to be. When the film begins to get serious, the humour of the hilarious main character pulls it back to reality. He actually makes the story more believable in doing so. The fact that there are so many campy and over-the-top scenes actually...
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- Posted: Dec-17-2007
Buyer Beware: Some Discs Still Defective
I must agree with the gentleman who indicated that Universal had not done a good job with the HD-DVD version of this movie. I bought it, settled in with the grand kids and watched until chapter 17 when the movie came to a grinding halt (it stuttered, it jerked, it pixelated, it finally froze)...
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- Posted: Nov-24-2007
Mainly For One Reason.....
This is an entertaining action movie but the real reason I gave it 5-stars in because of Kelly Hu. She's a good actress and she's also breathtakingly-gorgeous. Yes, I know it's silly to give a movie a perfect rating based on how much of a babe one of its stars is, but if you haven't seen it...
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