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55 out of 70 people found the following comment useful :-
this movie is awful, 20 August 2008

Author: garrett_metzler from Canada

I will be honest I enjoyed like 10 min of this movie only because if you change the main characters name to Hercules, well then its exactly that. And its a horrible version. If you are any type of buff who enjoys Movies that are from way back when then you will hate this because the lingo used is from 2008 - all speech is written as though this whole story took place now. Not hundreds of years ago. "Not my cup of tea" - is one line used that was absolutely ridiculous. All the swearing is - as*hole - jerk - jack a*s honestly who writes these things ?? Don't waste your money on this movie at all

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33 out of 40 people found the following comment useful :-
Hey, kiddies! Did you enjoy the first Scorpion King? *sucker punch*, 23 August 2008

Author: Scott Baldwin (Bruce_Dickinson) from Edmonton, Canada

I remember seeing the first Scorpion King in the theater and I LOVED it. It had pretty much everything I could expect in a spin-off from The Mummy- Great action, lots of witty humor and very beautiful Egyptian location, and THE ROCK! What a fantastic and underrated . Now I saw the trailer for this one and thought "Another one?". Sadly, it looks like I was right. *Another* one. A movie I could laugh, cry, and gawk at how bad it is. So I decided to rent it anyways, because, well, hey, it's a Scorpion King movie. And oh, I couldn't even make it all the way through. It's that bad... well, actually it's WORSE!!!!! The location is AWFUL and nothing like the other movie which had BEAUTIFUL scenery in Egypt, the actors seem to have gotten their acting talents from 4 year olds, the battle scenes are awful too- shaky camera, constant jump edits, it's like you're having a seizure the whole time. Oh and the dialog is mind-numbingly awful too. Overall, if you like mindless idiocy that's so-called "Cinema", be sure not to miss this stinker.

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36 out of 47 people found the following comment useful :-
Dumb dee dumb dumb, 22 August 2008

Author: vic-232 from United States

Even if you thought "Beastmaster" was great drama, you'll STILL think Scorpion King 2 is dreadful. The acting is surpassed in dreadfulness only by the dialog, although the muddy, on-the-cheap special effects also cannot be excluded from the race for the bottom.

We expect a sequel to be worse than the original film, and SK2 does nothing to dash our expectations -- even if it's a prequel. One finds it hard to imagine how the immensely boring and slightly soft hero played by Michael Copan ever could grow up to become "The Rock," whose Brooklynesque charm made the original "Scorpion King" worth watching.

Everything, yes, absolutely EVERYTHING in SK2 is derivative -- and NOTHING is done nearly as well as it's been done in previous sword and sorcery epics. In brief, skip it -- even if the only other choice at 3 A.M. is an infomercial for ceramic steak knives. SK2 is as bad as they come.

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23 out of 32 people found the following comment useful :-
This movie is like a hurricane...It sucks AND blows!!, 28 August 2008

Author: peace-chaos from Washington State, United States

If I could give this movie zero out of ten, I would! It TOTALLY SUX!!! Badly written, badly acted, badly directed/produced, bad music, crappy story line...I could go on and on.. I can't believe they actually put this movie out on DVD. I want my $5.00 back. What a waste. Everyone in this movie speaks modern English...All of the accents are completely different(not because they're supposed to be either)...the worst one of all being the people who don't even TRY, and talk like they're walking around the mall instead of taking their roles seriously. no wonder The Rock wouldn't do this movie. After the first three minutes I wanted to bash my own head into a brick wall!! THIS IS THE FIRST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN THAT WAS SO INCREDIBLY HORRIBLE I HAD TO COMMENT ABOUT IT ON THIS OR ANY OTHER SITE. For the love of God, don't watch this movie...it'll make you wish you had lost all of your senses the second you pushed play.

P.S. The writers/directors/producers/casting agents/actors in/of this movie should be locked in a brick room and be forced to watch this movie nonstop while the rest of us take bets on how long it takes for one of them to bash their way through the wall with their head... THAT very well could be the only method that lot has of effectively entertaining anyone with this movie.

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15 out of 18 people found the following comment useful :-
Pretty boring, hard to watch, 22 August 2008

Author: goalieboy45 from Canada

This movie is very bland, action sequences are mediocre at best and the attempts at humor throughout the film usually failed to make me even think about laughing. The storyline is a major problem with it as it brings no excitement to the movie at all and really the plot is pretty stupid. I was unable to watch this movie the whole way through the first time since it was just too boring to continue, but I did finish it during my third viewing of the film. Bad acting, Bad CGI, Badstoryline and really just not a good movie. If you must see this rent it, but the storyline has nothing to do with the first one so really nobody should even be watching this movie. Overall, not the worst movie i've ever watched, but definitely near the bottom 4/10

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16 out of 24 people found the following comment useful :-
Do yourself a favor, don't watch this movie., 26 August 2008

Author: korash_sp from Spain

I can't really describe how awful this movie was. I'm usually very skeptic and really try to stay away from movies with less than 6.0 score. Too bad this wasn't rated when I made the mistake the watch it.

I actually enjoyed "The Scorpion King" with the Rock, because you could tell that they had bothered to create something watchable, and while not the greatest film, it was at least entertaining.

This one on the other hand has nothing the previous one had. It doesn't have the Rock, which I believe was one of the main reasons to watch "The Scorpion King" to begin with; and it doesn't have any good scenery or even special effects worth mentioning. Action scenes were awful as well.

So all in all, try to stay away from this movie, and if for some strange reason you decide to watch it at least don't do it sober.

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6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
Not bad for what it is - a straight-to-DVD prequel, 13 September 2008

Author: gridoon2009

Don't take this film too seriously - the filmmakers obviously didn't. Although it's set in a period "long, long ago", most of the characters look, talk and act VERY contemporary. Equally contemporary is the use of "bullet time" in some of the fight scenes! I wouldn't count on it for a lesson in mythology, either (hmmm, and I thought the Minotaur was killed by Theseus!). And there are a few too many scenes where the characters are simply walking around, while we're waiting for something to happen. On the bright side, Russell Mulcahy is an experienced B-movie director, and the film delivers enough spectacle, with clear cinematography and some imaginative special effects (the best being the transportation from the labyrinth to Hades). The script is basically yet another "quest for vengeance" story, but it does have a nice double-twist at the end. Oh, and I hope we'll get to see more of the breathtakingly beautiful and exotic Karen David in the years to come. Wow, what a woman. Smart move to put her, and the also beautiful and exotic Natalie Becker, on the DVD cover - without those two, I would never have rented this film. (**1/2)

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12 out of 20 people found the following comment useful :-
Reminds me of a cheesy porno, but the acting wasn't quite as good..., 10 September 2008

Author: anthony-501 (anthony@acwebprint.com) from United States

I can't say I thought it would be a nail biter, but I love Randy Couture and figured it was worth a shot. Poor Randy...acting just isn't for him. And whoever OK'd his screen tests should be punished for it. Of course, that's not to say that anyone else in this movie can act either...the acting is on par with that of porn or the reenactments you see on those crime TV shows.

I've never acted a day in my life and I know I could have delivered lines better than the actors did.

To really accentuate the poor acting, the writing was ridiculous (both storyline and scripting). It's really hard to believe that this script actually made it past the person writing the check to fund this piece of crap.

The fight scenes aren't much better either...between the "heat seeking arrow" scene and Randy Couture doing some MMA training with his body guards, it took me about 20 minutes to realize I wasn't even going to have a little fun watching this thing.

I loved the Mummy movies, but I thought the first SK movie was pure cheese and this one ups the ante even further. It's really hard to believe Stephen Sommers (the original writer/director of the Mummy) was involved in this one.

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10 out of 17 people found the following comment useful :-
Not bad...Not good...Just something to watch, 22 August 2008

Author: Abyss24 from The place between heaven and hell

Well, with the amount of glorification that this movie received on TV previews, I had high expectations for it. The truth of the matter is though, it wasn't at all what I expected it to be. The acting was extensively wooden and bland. The action sequences were laughable and in some cases unbelievable. The story was unnecessary and it had nothing to do with the first installment. Character development was non-existent, and all-in-all, it was just a boring movie. So I'd suggest avoiding this one. The first Scorpian King was 100x better than this, and even that wasn't spectacular. If you must see it then I'd suggest renting it. To me, it was just a movie that seems like it should be on the Sci-fi channel.

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :-
The Scorpion Kid, 14 September 2008

Author: xamtaro from Singapore

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A story about a young Scorpion king.........great. I loved the previous Scorpion king movie, so i hoped i would like this one too.

When i finally watched it, my feelins were mixed. It was BAD. It was like watching a TV series pilot episode of "Young Hercules".

THe BAD - Horrible effects. the CGI is bad. At times CGI for the creatures look like old Ray Harryhausen stop-motion effects. Don't know if this was intentional(the producers wanting a more "classic" look to the movie) or just the result of unskilled CGI artists or low budget. - Bad script and wooden acting. I have no idea why Randy Couture's is up on the DVD casing in such big letters. HE CAN'T ACT and He's given terrible lines!!! Sargon comes across as some Dragonball Z villain reject. Other lines for other characters in the script make the movie sound like a Saturday morning cartoon. - predictable stock characterization. The hot warrior chick, comic relief Asian guy, quirky englishman(he's supposed to be Greek in the show), sexy evil goddess etc etc. Been there done that. BORING. - "Been there done that" story.

The good - THe director. THe direction, especially the fight scenes are excellent. This director seems to be able to make the most of the movie's small budget and at least provide some interesting action to counter the uninteresting story. It is thanks to creative directing that the low budget of the movie is not so easily seen at first glance. - Michael Copon, the actor who plays young Scorpion king. Though he doesn't look like a young Rock At least he tries to mimic the way the Dwayne "theRock" Johnson(in the previous SCorpion king movie) moves, acts and speaks. He even flashes the Rock's eyebrow thingy move during the movie.

1 last comment. AFter watching this, seems that either the Mummy Returns has their history wrong or THe Scorpion king Mathyus is a really silly man. During his life he fought a) A warrior king who made a pact with a dark god in exchange for eternal power and ends up as some scorpion monster b) A warlord with a marauding legion of troops that go around conquering cities

And by the time the flashback at the start of Mummy Returns happens, Mathyus is doing BOTH those things. Commanding a marauding legion which conquers cities AND making pacts with dark gods resulting in a Scorpion monster transformation.

A bit of trivia: Mathyus at first wanted to travel to Egypt to get the "spear of Osiris" to defeat Sargon. But he is convinced to go to Greece instead for a different artifact. The Spear of Osiris is what Rick O connell used in Mummy Returns to kill the monster Scorpion king.

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