Now, one of my guilty pleasures (well,
not guilty- there’s nothing guilty about it!) is the original Scorpion King
movie. The Rock is cool, there’s just no getting around that fact. And this is
coming from someone who never watched any of that wrestling stuff in his life!
I was surprised to see there was a
third instalment of the story, as I wasn’t even aware that there had been a
second one.
Anyway, this one seems to pick up right
at the end of the second movie- we get a quick synopsis of what has went
before, and are then plunged straight into the action.
Victor Webster plays warrior Mathayus with
gusto but no matter how hard he tries, he is not the White Dwarf of charisma
that The Rock is. Horus, king of Egypt and sometime Hellboy Ron Pearlman hires
him for a job, but things go complicated and there’s a load of double crossing
and stuff. And something about a magic necklace and the Book of the Dead from
the original Mummy movie. To be honest, it lost me a bit, but luckily there are
characters who helpfully explain the plot every few scenes.
Also in the mix is a wildly overacting
Billy Zane who, to his credit, is putting a lot of effort into his role as the
evil brother of Pearlman’s character.
The special effects are not quite up to
the standard of the huge budget original, and neither is the acting (which isn’t,
I admit, saying much!).
This is very much one of those movies
you watch with your brain in neutral. It is perfect Saturday night beer and
pizza fodder.
Oh, and there are elephants. And
ninjas. And ninjas riding elephants. That has to be a good thing, right?
Scorpion King 3 is released on DVD by
Universal on 27th February and is available to pre-order now.
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