chrtela Reviews

The Scorpion King (2002)

Where's the script ?

[3/10 · 24 March 2003]

When my best friend bought an all new home-cinema system, I was looking for big action movie to test it. So we went to the DVD machine, and one of the available movies was "The Scorpion King". Ok, I remembered "The Mummy" and thought "Yeah, it was not to bad. Scorpion King is from same producers. Let's give it a try !".

What a mistake. No script, no acting, no nothing. When there is some humor, it's very difficult to say if its wanted or not. The bad guy is ridiculous, the good guy too. And the other characters ! Amazing, they're all inconsistents.

I give it a 3, because the sun is high in the sky and my heart is full of compassion.

Le démon dans l'île (1983)

Terrible

[2/10 · 12 October 2002]

Forget visual effects, they are... well... Let's say there is no visual effect. The story ? Forget the story, even scenarist has forgotten the story. Acting is not convincing anybody. As we say in France : "Circulez, y'a rien à voir" ("Go away, there's nothing to see").

The only positive point : it was one of the very rare try for a french fantastic movie.