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A fun adventure flick
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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rocks 2nd film
a assassian in biblical times is hired to kill some big shot wizard elsewhere.rock is the assassian.the only popular character is the rock.kids around 10 and up should be able to handle it.this is the rocks 2nd best movie id say.it was suprisingly good considering nearly every other movie starring a wrestler-including the mummy returns-sucked.its a action/fantasy type deal.there are a number of half naked chicks in this one.the rocks sidekick is the idiotic type you just keep wishing would die the whole damn time like the donkey on shrek.it is very good,but nearly as good as the wwe and hollywood would have you belive.

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The Rock as the Scorpion King
The Rock, Dwayne Johnson, former WWF Champion, and the
People's Champion makes his first leading role acting debut as the Scorpion King.

The Scorpion King is the prequel to the Mummy Returns in which the Scorpion King is killed and later tried to be revived.

The success of the Mummy Returns and the Mummy lay in it's great story, action, effects and characters. The addition of the Scorpion King character in the Mummy
Returns was a big hit with movie fans. The Rock's brief role in that movie made a lasting impact on fans and the fans wanted more.

Chuck Russell , the director of this movie, obviously took the success, that the character of The Scorpion King had in ''The Mummy Returns'' and added more depth and detail.

The Rock underwent sword training, staff training, cardiovascular training for the Scorpion King. Being over 5 time WWF Champ , the Rock already had
the work ethic , dedication and charisma for the role. Although this is not mentioned. part of ''The Scorpion King's'' success lay on the fact, that the story is also similiar to the ''Conan The Barbarian'' movie with Arnold Schwarzenger.

In fact, comparing the 2 movies, one can see that the Rock in a much shorter time, has become a greater actor than Arnold Schwarzenger.

In his first films Arnold's movie and acting were less than stellar, so the Rock has managed to not only leave an impact with movie critics but entertained them as well. The Scorpion King is about an evil king, Memnon (Steven Brand), an evil king who has slaughters dozens of people including the village of Mathayus (The Rock).

Mathayus is a desert assasin and a great warrior. Pretty soon , the people who fear Memnon agree that Mathayus must get rid of him. However, Memnon's sorcererss, Cassandra (Kelly Hu) plans to kill anyone trying to take over the land.
Mathayus , the greatest warrior in the world, does not plan to let this happen, must kill Memnon before it's too late, and claim his right as the Scorpion King.

In his quest, Mathayus is joined by Balthazar (Michael Clark Duncan) and many others who will fight side by side to get Memnon. This is where the real actions begins, as we are treated to a bunch of violent, but cool action scenes involving
swords , spears and more. The visual effects are also extremely well done,
if you have seen the effects for ''The Mummy'', or ''The Mummy Returns'' then you won't be satisfied by the effects of this film.

Interesting notes about the Scorpion King:

The Discovery Channel recently had a special about uncovering a real life Scorpion King in Egypt, so the movie itself is not entirely made up. The success of the Scorpion King has spawned a couple of great games including a Gameboy Advance version and a planned Playstation version.

Overall, the Rock does a successful and great acting role in his first lead, since ''The Mummy Returns''. ''The Scorpion King'' has plenty of action, visual effects and romance, to please even the most diehard fan. If you are already a fan of ''The Rock'' you are going to be very satisfied with this flick.

Even if you are not a fan of ''The Rock'' I am sure you still love this great prequel to ''The Mummy Returns''.