The Scorpion King

As promised, here is my review of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's spin-off movie from The Mummy Returns - The Scorpion King.  Before you stop reading this, I have to tell you, I was pleasantly surprised by this movie!  It was actually better than The Mummy Returns.
If you love action scenes, this movie has some of the best fight scenes on film.  The story is how The Scorpion King became a King.  Stephen Sommers was a producer on this film as well as a writer, so it was faithful to it's source material.  The only problem was the character was a good guy but in the original movie he was a bad guy.  Go figure!
There were a couple of stolen story ideas from Bond and from Indy but they only enhanced this film's genre heritage.
Other stars include Steven Brand as Memnon and Michael Clarke Duncan as Balthazar, with Kelly Hu as the hot Sorceress.
I actually enjoyed this movie, so if you have seen the Mummy movies, make sure you see this. A good swords and sandles movie with a bit of Spartacus thrown in (it was filmed in the Universal backlot and used redressed sets from Spartacus.) and Batman! (The cave that our heroes are led from as they enter Michael Clarke Duncan's village is the original entrance to the Batcave! - Now there's a bit of trivia!) 8/10