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NUMBERS
Box Office: $90,341,670
VHS Rentals: $11,710,000
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CONSENSUS
Action adventure doesn't get much cheesier than The Scorpion King.
CAST & CREW
The Rock, Michael Clarke Duncan, Grant Heslov
Directed by Chuck Russell
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SYNOPSIS
Five thousand years ago, a ruthlessly ambitious warlord named Memnon believed he was destined to rule the scattered peoples of the desert. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, intense sequences of action violence and some sensuality
RUNTIME
1 hour, 32 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Apr 19, 2002
Video: Oct 1, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Universal Pictures
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Desert, Egypt, WWE/World Wrestling Entertainment
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Scorpion King Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
PARENTS EVALUATION
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TRAILER & MEDIA
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NEWS ARTICLES
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 "The script has less spice than a rat burger and The Rock's fighting skills are more in line with Steven Seagal."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"Mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer's bloated effects fest The Mummy Returns."
-- Chuck Wilson, L.A. WEEKLY
 "This prequel to a sequel to a remake is a fitfully entertaining affair, one that will enthrall its target audience...and their parents too."
-- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"The April 2002 instalment of the American War for Independence, complete with loads of CGI and bushels of violence, but not a drop of human blood."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"The Rock is an action star dynamo, with the size of a whale and the grace of a dolphin. And he struts his mad skills in "The Scorpion King.""
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"Oh come on. Like you couldn't smell this turkey rotting from miles away."
-- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"It's a hoot watching The Rock chomp on jumbo ants, pull an arrow out of his back, and leap unscathed through raging fire!"
-- Betty Jo Tucker, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"Plot, characters, drama, emotions, ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing The Scorpion King."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"[Russell] makes good B movies (The Mask, The Blob), and The Scorpion King more than ably meets those standards."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES
"The Rock is destined to be the 21st Century's new "Conan" and that he's going to make a splash even greater than Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claud Van Damme or Steven Segal."
-- Michael Szymanski, ZAP2IT.COM
"More a load of enjoyable, Conan-esque claptrap than the punishing, special-effects soul assaults the Mummy pictures represent."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"The Scorpion King is more fun than Conan the Barbarian."
-- Gerry Shamray, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of cheese, indeed."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
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"There is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the top and movies that don't care about being stupid"
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"An incoherent jumble of a film that's rarely as entertaining as it could have been."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Reeks of rot and hack work from start to finish."
-- Joshua Vasquez, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"Barely goes beyond comic book status."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"A first-rate bare-chested-barbarian adventure, delivering impressive swordplay, flashy wizardry, and scantily clad heroes and heroines."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"Nothing but an episode of Smackdown! in period costume and with a bigger budget."
-- Gemma Tarlach, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"Just a silly, amusingly retrograde, compilation of old genre cliches...
Yet it's professionally stitched together and moves along reasonably
well."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"An unbelievably stupid film, though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"The Rock has a great presence but one battle after another is not the same as one battle followed by killer CGI effects."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"Elicits more groans from the audience than Jar Jar Binks, Scrappy Doo and Scooby Dumb, all wrapped up into one."
-- Alex Sandell, JUICY CEREBELLUM
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ROTTEN 27%
Avg. Rating: 4.6/10 |
"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."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"In its ragged, cheap and unassuming way, the movie works."
-- Bruce Westbrook, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"A fairly by-the-books blend of action and romance with sprinklings of intentional and unintentional comedy."
-- Dan Via, WASHINGTON POST
"A live-action cartoon, a fast-moving and cheerfully simplistic 88 minutes of exaggerated action put together with the preteen boy in mind."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"It's not hateful. It's simply stupid, irrelevant and deeply, truly, bottomlessly cynical."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"Rock's got the kind of sly charm and non- self-conscious sincerity that could fit into any action hero archetype imaginable, even the old-school ones."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"As an actor, The Rock is aptly named."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"Wimps out by going for that PG-13 rating, so the more graphic violence is mostly off-screen and the sexuality is muted."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"All the necessary exposition prevents the picture from rising above your generic sand 'n' sandal adventure."
-- Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Russell lacks the visual panache, the comic touch, and perhaps the budget of Sommers's title-bout features."
-- Ed Park, VILLAGE VOICE
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"Has just enough charm (not to mention a sense of its own ridiculousness) to stay afloat."
-- Jamie Russell, BBCI FILMS
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