This movie is set in about 5000 years ago in the ancient city of Gomorrah. The remaining of the free tribes come together to tackle Memnon because of his evil nature. The sorceress is the major advantage Memnon has over them, so they decided to hire three Akkadian assassins led by Mathayus to take care of her.
Wimps out by going for that PG-13 rating, so the more graphic violence is mostly off-screen and the sexuality is muted.
Stephen Holden
New York Times
April 20, 2002
The Scorpion King may look like a movie, but it feels like a food fight.
Todd Gilchrist
IGN Movies
July 02, 2008
The Rock, making his acting debut as the titular top dog (not counting his five digitally enhanced minutes in The Mummy Returns), turns in a slight, if promising, star turn as a reluctant savior of the free world, and leads an encouragingly multi-cultural
Boasting sword-and-sandal action more sluggish than a Ye Olde Renaissance Faire, The Rock putting someone through a table would be a welcome anachronism. "The Scorpion King"? More like "Moron the Barbarian."