The Scorpion King Critic Reviews

For a movie with such a misplaced sense of history, The Scorpion King seems afraid to have more fun with its own stupidity.Read the full review

Here is a movie that embraces its goofiness like a Get Out of Jail Free card.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

As this chaotic barrage of muscle flexing, swordplay, fireballs, crude digital effects and comic-book quips hurls itself off the screen, it's like having several garbage cans clogged with stale pizza, lukewarm cola, soggy French fries and greasy, ketchup-stained napkins emptied over your head.Read the full review

Prototypical summer-movie fare, designed to be consumed, enjoyed, and forgotten all at once.Read the full review

Of course, The Rock looks the part, though with a headband and buckskin, he'd also look like Tonto on steroids.Read the full review