From the matrix of "The Mummy - The Return" (2001), you baste a second story with a protagonist Scorpion King, following
the first episode of 2002 with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, in the shoes of the king, but seen as a prequel to the latter film.
The sequences of combat, at the beginning, we refer to the images of the "300" by Zack Snyder, but resulted in minor key and suffering effectiveness.
What follows is the story of Mathayus, (Michael Copon), told from his teenage years, long before that became the Scorpion King.
His father is killed by Sargon, (Randy Couture), the General Assembly of special forces combat the "Scorpion Blacks."
While Sargon becomes the new king, Mathayus swears to avenge his father and sacrifices and suffered training, becomes part of the "Scorpion Blacks," becoming one of the best fighters. But the malignant forces of Sargon prevent and have the best, leading a handful of mercenaries, with her friend Layla youth, (Karen David), the charismatic poet Ari, (Simon Quarterman), and a Chinese acrobat met along the way, Mathaius part in the search for a legendary sword, the only weapon that can kill Sargon.
The adventures leading the group a thousand dangers in the labyrinth of the Minotaur and nell''Oltretomba, where the sword is guarded by the goddess Astarte (Natalie Becker).
Does not take the viewer to feel the sensation that will be confirmed with the progress of history, one that runs in front of the eye, is not a film that gives the emotions of a good film.
Not past in the halls to be sold on DVD, the film is one of only between products that could be serialized into short stories for the small screen and intended for an audience of teenagers, fans of invincible heroes and adventures in exotic lands far away.
The sequences that show the physical training and character of the protagonist in his years of growth and development of his temper of a man in the crucible of testing, and whip in the fighting body to body, ventilated, but not ripen, the frames of Sparta Zack Snyder, and confirm a rough edit of the film and the sad certainty of being in front of a B movie.
Too many references to situations anachronistic and jumps Pindar, a use of language training from the bodies of the marines, the gesture of legionnaires of Imperial Rome, they move on stage disordinatamente as disordered molecules far from equilibrium to give a film without character and its connotations, but that seems disoriented in a series of images mounted in a clichés devoid of magic.
In the fighting, a passably choreography is difficult to digest in times when the work in CGI can offer to lovers of this kind, spectacular results, especially into contexts or historical epic or fantasy adventure of flavor.
Perhaps the meager outcome of the film, finds explanation in the original training director in music videos.
Are evident in this direction, lack of pathos of rhythm, continuity, attention to details, such as too frequent occasions off in the fight.
It ''an adventure that combines Jason and the Argonauts, with the Minotaur of Minos, with echoes of the classic''70s "7th trip Simbad" (Ray Harryhausen), the Odyssey, the recent "The Last Legion" in a resonance of land beyond the boundaries epochs and myths.
And Indiana Jones, with his "hand of the Faith", means his.
But here, no magic and dream, and the viewer can not travel inside a story that no raises and no wings to fly.
Bella brackets, the disturbing scene dell''Oltretomba Tom Hannam and horrid creatures who populate.
Rivrediamo But even here, the Ulysses Femiu, 1968, nell''Ade, looking for his mother, but with very different charm.
In this version of the world of the dead, there is very unlikely goddess Astarte, goddess of love and war, but arruffa hair like a cat and you pull your hair with the only women in the group of adventurers.
Perhaps not as Dwayne Johnson in the first episode, but Copon has a certain charisma in his role as a whole and its benefits are consistent with the figure who plays.
Karen David, (Layla), is a maschiaccio that attracts sympathy, (cautiously), on his cheek, energy and vitality.
Simon Quarterman far exceeds his colleagues in skill and invites MEETING yet its spontaneity, somehow more deserving, in other films.
Desirable, however, that Randy Couture, (Sargon), focused its attention on its core business wrestler in the lead of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and abandon any ambitions of presence on film, unless it decides, occasionally, to change expression.
Russell Mulcahy has chosen this time to remain in the shadow of Pharaoh, "Talos" (1998), in a film that even he remains in shadow, before moving on to "Resident Evil Extinction" (2007)
but no longer find the verve to rise to the heights of "Highlander", with its unforgettable long recovery at the beginning, without interruption, from long off the top floors.
That, indeed, was "a kind of magic!