The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior

As a child, Mathayus (Pierre Marais) has to watch as the evil Sargon (Randy Courture) murdered his father (Peter Butler), but he wouldn’t forget what he had seen. He would enlist in the Black Scorpion training command, which let him perfect his skills to a mastery level. Now as an adult, Mathayus, now played by Michael Copon) returns to Sargon’s realm with the mission for vengeance. However, Sargon remembers him and offers him a very high role, as one of his personal bodyguards. However, the position is of the highest loyalty, which Mathayus refuses to give to Sargon. When he refuses to kill his own brother, played by Chase Agulhas, Mathayus watches Sargon once again murder one of his family members, but Mathayus manages to survive. Now Mathayus is on a journey to find a weapon that can overpower Sargon’s mystical defenses, but can even his desire for revenge lead him to such a weapon?

The first film managed to get a professional wrestler as their main lead, so for the sequel, the producers ended up casting an MMA fighter as their main lead. Yes, you could say that The Rock was bad in the original, but Randy Couture is “far” worse in this one. Couture is atrocious, not even fun to watch in a so bad it’s good way, instead his boring and wooden, unable to handle even this weak material. Couture’s painful appearance wasn’t enough because “The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior,” released in 2008, has a vacuous script, terrible visual effects, and an average cast. Fusion3600 said in their review, “don’t usually watch the clock even in the worst movies, but I was counting down the seconds until this one ended. Even in a popcorn franchise like The Mummy, The Scorpion King 2 flounders and to be honest, should be avoided at all costs.”

I would have to agree with them because this is a really bad sequel. What’s the purpose of seeing this? For the hot female lead (Karen David and Abbie Maybanks) in this…again? I remember a long time ago the entire franchise was on Netflix and I decided to check them out until they were taken down. However, I saw the second one before it was taken off and I regret it. This is a superfluous film and they should not have turned this into a franchise.

However, they didn’t learn because they made other sequels to the film. Next week we’re going to look at the next film in the sad continuation of “The Scorpion King Month.”