Thinking about The Scorpion King
As film critic Witney Seibold once said, Rainbow Connection is a cheap shot. This has nothing to do with the Scorpion King but I just heard the song and it is cheating to use that song. The Scorpion King was Dwayne Johnson’s first starring role. It is not a bad movie but Johnson does not show his charm or at least not as much as he’d show in later movies. In this one, Johnson plays a warrior out to kill an evil warlord. The action bits are well staged. Roger Ebert liked it but he was a little harsh towards Kelly Hu. Maybe her performance seemed a little less natural than others in the cast but she was playing a sorceress. Perhaps she was going for otherworldly or mysterious but it did not work out. (Also to be fair, I have no idea what the director wanted her to do.) She later became a voice actress for some animated TV shows, so maybe she got better at acting. Johnson got better too. There are four more of these movies that went straight to video.