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Sunday, 5 April 2015

The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015)

I took one for the team and somehow enjoyed more than 50% of it! Victor Webster is a decent Mathayus. He manages to channel a little of the eye-brow attitude that The Rock warmed the first film with, and he's charming.
He gets paired with a female who loves/hates him, leading to some bickering married-couple humour that’s predicable but occasionally chucklesome.
The gung-ho adventuring stayed on track most of the way, even surviving the addition of a nutty Leonardo da Vinci-esque character, but it went full Indy Jones during the finale, peaking the bullshit meter beyond recovery. Nevertheless, it's definitely the best entry since the original film.

2 campfire stories out of 5

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