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Article: Culture: Thriller is as tasty as a bucket of popcorn.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- April 19, 2002
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The Scorpion King Cert 12, 91 min
This is much more what a modernday Saturday matine comic-book romp should be. When it was announced that they were making a prequel spin-off featuring the character played (largely as a scrappy CGI effect) by wrestler The Rock in The Mummy Returns, expectations were not high to say the least. However, directed by Chuck Russell, who made The Mask, this is a huge bucketful of popcorn barbarian adventure in the manner of Conan but with better action, better acting, better effects and better humour.
Actually the formula borrows ...