The question isn't whether "The Scorpion King" is bad, because of course it is. The question is whether it's the enjoyable
kind of bad, or the tedious kind. For me, it's the latter. There are battles, yes, but most of the hand-to-hand combat suspiciously resembles the sort of thing you see in professional wrestling -- which you can watch for free, and in the comfort of your own home. There are no witty lines of dialogue or interesting plot twists; instead, everything occurs in a depressingly predictable manner, with no imagination or style. In the genre of movies about swarthy men killing each other, it is passable. Wrestling star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson plays the Scorpion King, who at this point in his career is merely a hired assassin named Mathayus. At some point, he will become the Scorpion King -- and evil, too, you will recall -- and torment Brendan Fraser in "The Mummy Returns."
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