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Sunday, 24 June 2012

The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (2012)

SK3 is a sequel to the first film. You don't need to have seen SK2. That's for the best. Lacking that particular prerequisite is the best thing abut it.
It picks up the story of some years after the first film's end. Victor Webster takes over the role of Mathayus, who's once again a brooding mercenary.
The camera-work is shoddy; the editing is bad; the continuity department must've been on vacation; and Billy Zane is useless.
Despite that, I may be the only person in the western world that thought it was okay. It had a few likeable characters and some unintentional humour. And, crucially, it was a shit-ton better than the SK movie that came before it.

1½ pissy wine-skins out of 5

2 comments:

Impudent Urinal said...

Zane and Perlman will do any shit that their agent throws at them these days.

They are better than that.

cuckoo said...

Zane isn't.