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I went into “The Scorpion King” with glowing coarse expectations. Being a lover of the first two “Mummy” films, I was terribly disappointed, like many, to learn that the next film in the series would be a prequel and not involve the usual charming cast of Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. I also went in expecting The Rock to be dreary, cheesy, and annoying. It seemed to me that “The Scorpion King” would abet one purpose, to expose off The Rock’s fighting ability (like we don’t know already) .
Boy was I depraved! “The Scorpion King” turned out to be a top quality action flick! It was comical and filled with plenty of the witty humor that made “The Mummy” and “The Mummy Returns” such scrumptious films. The legend was actually quite challenging and spellbinding, quite the opposite of what I expected!
Believe it or not, The Rock was oddly charming in his role as Mathayus, The Scorpion King. I actually ended up really loving him! Mathayus’s jittery sidekick, Arpid (Grant Heslov) steals the prove! Heslov is so charming and utterly hilarious, it’s almost as if he was made for this role! My only complaint as far as acting goes is that of Kelly Hu, who plays the sorceress (and Mathayus’s esteem interest) . Her lines were cheesy to commence with, but an actress of greater talent could’ve delivered them with more enthusiasm and character.
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The movie begins rather unimpressively with Mathayus rescuing his brother from some barbaric enemies. The fight sequence was astonishing, but what really turned me off about this scene (and made me inquire how grand the rest of the film would be) was when Mathayus came barreling in to set aside his brother with his bow in hand and said “Boo” and everyone started screaming. Advance on; how cheesy and clichéd is that line? Thank God the rest of the movie isn’t like that!
Here’s a posthaste summarization of the plot:
Mathayus is hired by a band of rebels to execute the wizard who is helping the irascible Memnon bag battles by seeing into the future for him. Mathayus is area on completing his mission until he sees the wizard, who is actually the gorgeous witch Cassandra. Because of Mathayus’s hesitation, Memnon’s guards lift him and are about to slay him when Cassandra announces that she has had a vision and he is not to die by “Memnon’s hand or any that he orders”. Yeah, honest. The movie takes off from there.
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Yes, this movie is uninteresting and ridiculous, but it somehow manages to rise above that to bring us a truly appetizing film.
“The Scorpion King” is short but sweet, running at a convenient 90 minutes.
Rated PG-13 for “intense sequences of action violence and some sensuality”. Would be acceptable for around 10 and up.
When WWF superstar ‘The Rock’ decided to exhaust his worldwide wrestling stardom as a segue into acting it was an huge risk that paid off in ‘The Mummy returns’, but now it’s time for Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson to step out in his bear film, a prequel to the ‘Mummy’, ‘The Scorpion’ king.
The film was released on the 17th April in Australia and I had the chance to bag the first session in the country, and I have to admit I was very exited. I mean who wouldn’t be? ‘The Mummy’ and ‘The Mummy Returns’ that have been dubbed `silly’ by many were I feel two amazing films. A fantastic mixture of action, comedy, romance and overall fun. ‘The Scorpion King’ follows this same formula, but misses the stamp ever so slightly and thus loses marks in my books.
The film takes set before any of the pyramids have been built, aid in the old land where warlord Memnon has conquered all the lands of the Customary Kingdom, and where few people stand to fight his forces. When the scorpion king and his brother are sent to cancel Memnon’s sorcerer (who provides powerful of his power) they are caught and the scorpion king’s brother is killed. This needless to say makes him very wrathful, and yearning for revenge. The tale from here takes a turn when the scorpion king kidnaps the sorceress and consequently they drop in appreciate.
The biggest plus the film offers is the astonishing fight scenes, which are some of the best seen in a long time. In fact for a movie that has a hasten time of 110 minutes, probably 40 minutes of this is unprejudiced the fighting. Wrestling fans may perhaps be disappointed that ‘The Rock’ doesn’t do one ‘Rock Bottom’ or a ‘People’s elbow’ is the course of the film, but in my mind this may have made the film feel a shrimp hokey, relying on the wrestling angle too grand.
So where does the spot fit in? Well ‘The Scorpion King’ isn’t directed by Stephen Sommers (director of ‘The Mummy’ and ‘The Mummy returns’) and believes me it shows. The screenplay has all the wit and sparkle the other films had, but often the directing lets it down, at times making the sage line fit into the action, rather than the other map around. Occasionally the film suffers for this.
‘The Rock’ Dwayne Johnson puts in a commanding performance as ‘The Scorpion King’ and in my mind his style can be likened to Arnold Schwartzenegger, hey, lets not forget fair as ‘The Rock’ is using wrestling as his foot in the door Arnie did the same with his bodybuilding. His characterization is commanding and his knowledge of choreographed action is visible, as the fight scenes are some of the best around. It also need to be seen the Michael Clarke Duncan (’The Green Mile’) playing Balthazar is hilarious, I mean the guy is ‘The Rock’s’ biggest fan in genuine life and here they are fighting together.
Arguably the most favorite character in the other two films was Jonathan (John Hannah) in ‘The Scorpion King’ the character is rehashed in the produce of an all but nameless horse thief. Admittedly the character is hilarious, but on occasion his quips drop a cramped flat, plus section of Jonathan’s charm in the other films is his flawed British attitude towards life.
While ‘The Scorpion King’ lacks some of the charm ‘The Mummy’ and ‘The Mummy returns’ possessed the film is nevertheless competent. The fight scenes are incredible and it easily holds up to any other action film out there. Even more so the film may relieve Vince McMahon (executive producer) a procedure to procure some of his lost funds after the failure of XFL. This film is one that has to be watched in order to glance the first major work of one of the futures greatest action stars in Dwayne Johnson. Overall a 3.5 star film.
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