A desert warrior rises up against the evil army that is destroying his homeland. He captures the enemy's key sorcerer, takes her deep into the desert and prepares for a final showdown.A desert warrior rises up against the evil army that is destroying his homeland. He captures the enemy's key sorcerer, takes her deep into the desert and prepares for a final showdown.A desert warrior rises up against the evil army that is destroying his homeland. He captures the enemy's key sorcerer, takes her deep into the desert and prepares for a final showdown.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations
Dwayne Johnson
- Mathayus
- (as The Rock)
Scott L. Schwartz
- Torturer
- (as Scott Schwartz)
Michael Hilow
- Guard at Ant Pit
- (as Mike Hilow)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn one scene, Dwayne Johnson, lying on his back, springs to his feet. Director Chuck Russell wanted to include a physical feat which only Johnson could perform. Russell said he had never seen a 6-foot, 3-inch man do that.
- GoofsPhilos the Alchemist has gunpowder, which he claims is from China. Chinese "firepowder" was developed in the mid-200s BCE, and the movie is set almost 3,000 years before that.
- Crazy creditsThere are no opening credits, only with the Universal logo and the title for the film at the beginning.
- Alternate versionsIn the UK the distributor, UIP, removed a headbutt in the final fight sequence between Mathayus and Memnon after advice given to them by the BBFC. This was done to obtain a more commercial '12' rating.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (2012)
- SoundtracksMarching-In
Written by Sho Kosugi
Performed by The Taiko Drummers
Featured review
Bad guy gone ... good?
I am not sure why the short cameo or whatever you want to call it, The Rock (aka Dwayne Johnson) had in The Mummy 2 made him eligible to have his spin-off. And not only that: they made it so succesful, it had more sequels than the "original" Mummy movies (with Brendan Fraser). Well the first one was quite good - so there is that.
The movie is well made and fortunately the Rock is physically there and not a CGI thing or whatever that was that made it to the end of the Mummy 2.
But this is an origin story ... a story about the good Scorpion King ... you know, before he went mad and bad. I don't even want to know what the other 4 movies are about. But I might watch them one day ... I actually have watched at least one more ... can't recall it, but that's why I do the reviews too. To remember myself in case I forget ... which happens - and is not surprising when you consider the amount of movies I've watched.
The movie is well made and fortunately the Rock is physically there and not a CGI thing or whatever that was that made it to the end of the Mummy 2.
But this is an origin story ... a story about the good Scorpion King ... you know, before he went mad and bad. I don't even want to know what the other 4 movies are about. But I might watch them one day ... I actually have watched at least one more ... can't recall it, but that's why I do the reviews too. To remember myself in case I forget ... which happens - and is not surprising when you consider the amount of movies I've watched.
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- kosmasp
- May 24, 2022
Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Vua Bọ Cạp
- Filming locations
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $60,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $91,047,077
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $36,075,875
- Apr 21, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $180,630,907
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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