The Scorpion King
A Film Review By Paul Perkins
You Will Smell What The Rock Is Cooking; The Next Action Superstar
Before I begin my review for anybody who think this is a
sequel of The Mummy films you are wrong this is not a sequel this is a prequel.
The film set back before The Mummy films happen.
Now to the review 5 years ago a Ruthless Warrior name
Memnon (Steven Brand) is taking over the land and killing anyone who is against
him. The reason he is so powerful is because he has a sorceress (Kelly Hu) next
to him telling him want to do in battle to beat his enemies, because she can see
into the future.
But the people want him to be killed but they cannot do it
themselves. So they hired a deadly assassin name Mathayus (Know to
millions—and millions of his fans as The Rock “Dwayne Johnson”). So
Mathayus sent out with the help of long time enemy now kind of a friend
Balthazar (Michael Clarke Duncan) to destroy Memnon. So peace can back to the
land.
In the world of professional wrestling there is one man who
all the kids look up to, all his co-workers want to become in the business and
himself is trying to be the best in all he does. He is called The Rock or his
tagline is the people champion. In wrestling The Rock comes up with the best
saying and can get the crow cheering for him.
Just like one of his co-workers name Hogan; he is branching
out to film to try something different. His first film was The Mummy Returns,
which is the Sequel to The Mummy, but he had a very short part in the
film and in one scene was very cheesy looking. You are know if you are a
wrestling fans how he is in the ring but you may be asking yourself can he act?
Yes he can as an actor he was good. He seems to have the
part down pack and also seems to know all the lines and how the facial
expression for some of scenes should be like. The action scenes were good and
clearly The Rock is the man for the role. If all his action films are like this
on he can be the next Sylvester or Arnold of this generation. Well enough about
The Rock let me tell you about the film.
Well The Scorpion King is a prequel not a sequel to
The Mummy Franchise. But it does have some elements from the second one. Like in
the second one had a scene with The Scorpion King but it was short. The
Scorpion King uses some cgi stiff but not as much as the two mummy films
did. In the other two there was some man-eaters but that look like big coach
roaches in this film they use man-eaters red ants and well ask some cgi cobras.
The film is mostly action adventure; but what was
surprising to me is that is has some funny one-liners in the film. The acting
was very good between all of the main cast members. The ladies of the film look
very nice and very nice to look at. But what was very nice is that they had a
big part in the film and in the fight scenes. Kelly Hu was one of the main
female lead in the film.
For all of you wrestling fans out there is a totally of 5
wrestling moves preformed in the film and well as one of The Rock trade marks.
Also there is a cameo by another wrestler in the film but he has a small part.
© 2002 Paul Perkins