Title: The Scorpion King
Year: 2002
Director: Stephen Sommers
Country: US
Language English
Do you smell what the Scorpion King is cookin’? In 2002 “The Rock” was one of the biggest stars the WWF ever had. He was paving his way into Hollywood & a big question we all had on our minds was, “Could he be the next big action star?”
A desert warrior (Dwayne Johnson) rises up against the evil army that is destroying his homeland.
The answer...eventually became a resounding yes? This anticipated prequel of The Mummy (1999) was a good beginning for The Rock, even if the film as a whole was fairly terrible. The action scenes & polished set pieces, highlighted the actor’s physical presence & presented a fair amount of his natural charisma.
The story itself was meandering, lazy screenwriting. This guy is called The Scorpion KING; he even appears as half-man, half-scorpion in The Mummy Returns (2001), but the film does nothing with that premise.
While The Mummy (1999) was a brief return to Indiana Jones’ like action adventure, Scorpion King is very run-of-the-mill, straight to dvd action. It was good for The Rock, but I imagine he would have liked to start his career on a higher note.
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