The Scorpion King is set 5000 years ago in the notorious city of Gomorrah, where an evil ruler is determined to lay waste to all the nomadic peoples of the desert. The few remaining tribes, never natural allies, have to unite or perish. Knowing their enemy relies on the visions of a sorcerer, they hire a skilled assassin, Mathayus (The Rock), to eliminate him.
Someone's gone to the trouble of making a comic-book version of The Scorpion King, but it's not clear why they bothered. The movie itself is a live-action cartoon, a fast-moving and cheerfully simplistic 88 minutes of exaggerated action put together with the preteen boy in mind.
Although it features wrestling star the Rock in the title role and is energetically directed by journeyman Chuck Russell, the driving force behind The Scorpion King appears to be The Mummy/The Mummy Returns director Stephen Sommers, who co-produced as well as co-wrote the story (with Jonathan Hales) and the screenplay (with William Osborne and David Hayter).
Even before 2001's The Mummy Returns was released, the Universal producers were so enamoured of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, who co-starred, that a spin-off vehicle was rushed into production. The Scorpion King is the result.
Long before Mathayus (Johnson) became the scorpion monster we see in crappy CGI at the denouement of The Mummy Returns, he was a an assassin for hire in the ancient world. This world is being conquered by the ruthless Memnon (Brand) - "the greatest swordsman the world had ever seen". With the aid of Cassandra (Hu), a sorcerer who can see into the future, Memnon seems unstoppable. The remnants of the unconquered tribes employ Mathayus to kil...
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they went completely in opposite direction of what the scorpion king was pertaining to the mummy I enjoyed it but hate when they decide to change it up
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