Synopsis
In ancient Egypt, peasant Mathayus is hired to exact revenge on the powerful Memnon and the sorceress Cassandra, who are ready to overtake Balthazar's village. Amid betrayals, thieves, abductions and more, Mathayus strives to bring justice to his complicated world.
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Cast
- Dwayne JohnsonMathayus / The Scorpion King
- Steven BrandMemnon
- Michael Clarke DuncanBalthazar
- Kelly HuCassandra
- Bernard HillPhilos
- Grant HeslovArpid
- Peter FacinelliTakmet
- Ralf MoellerThorak
- Branscombe RichmondJesup
- Roger ReesKing Pheron
Recommendations
- 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Like every other action movie, it's designed for a 14-year-old boy's mentality, but it's enjoyable enough to turn most people into 14-year-old boys. - 70
Salon
The Scorpion King, so far from perfect it isn't funny, is nevertheless one of those movies that catches you up in something bigger than yourself, namely, an archetypal desire to enjoy good trash every now and then. - 58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Rock manages to play both with a crude candor more genuine than the entertaining if contrived spectacle around him, and a surprising big-screen charisma and ease that makes him a natural-born screen hero. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Isn't incompetent; it's just plodding and obvious. If anything holds it together, it's The Rock's ironic ability to tread lightly, which the movie is neither fast nor inventive enough to recognize as different from the spirit of Arnold. - 50
Miami Herald
The good news about The Scorpion King is that The Rock turns out to be a charismatic, ingratiating screen presence. - 50
Boston Globe
For a movie with such a misplaced sense of history, The Scorpion King seems afraid to have more fun with its own stupidity. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The style here is much more in the spirit of the smash and slash of the Conan movies than the banter and computer-generated monsters of the Mummy movies. - 50
ReelViews
It is possible to make an engaging action/adventure picture of this sort, but The Scorpion King isn't it. The movie isn't godawful, but it's far from inspired, and, as I sat through its 90 minute running length, I found my mind wandering.
