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The Scorpion King Movie Rating: 
Well-oiled fun
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| This spin-off from The Mummy Returns is a lively B-movie, prebiblical action romp with a postmodern sensibility. To free the desert people from bondage, warrior Mathayus (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) teams up with beefy thug Balthazar (Michael Clarke Duncan) to kill Cassandra (Kelly Hu), the sorceress advisor of brutal tyrant Memnon (Steven Brand), but treachery abounds. |
 "The Rock" and Michael Clarke Duncan in The Scorpion King. Courtesy Universal Pictures. |
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The outrageous opening battle sequence establishes the comic-book
tone and is followed by an exaggerated assault of visual effects,
imaginatively choreographed attacks, and really bad dialogue. The
preposterous story is full of magic gibberish and stock characters from
every action movie ever made, but the movie is thoroughly entertaining in a
relentlessly stupid way. Turn off your brain and enjoy.
Gay Interest: The movie is set in Gomorrah, but neighbouring Sodom is nowhere in sight, perhaps to avoid damaging the kiddies' sensitive moral fibre. This movie may one day rank as gay camp for all the well-oiled musclemen and supermodel warriors in every single frame. | |
I Want Muscle
