User Score
5.4 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 56 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 56
  2. Negative: 15 out of 56

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  1. JessicaP.
    Jul 8, 2002
    4
    Everybody has to suck at something, well,not only does The Rock suck at wrestling but at acting too. He really needs some help, or do I just hate him?
  2. [Anonymous]
    May 3, 2002
    4
    The Rock is very charismatic, but can't save this positively horrible film. I would rather lick the frost off of a metal pole in the dead of winter then to ever sit through this piece of crap ever again.
  3. Nov 25, 2012
    4
    If we restrict ratings to movies starring former 'rasslers, this might rate 6-7 from me (top honors going to "They Live" with 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper). But, overall, I find this to be below average. It's mildly entertaining, but just doesn't have that 'special hook'. If you want sword-and-sorcery action, you'd do much better sticking with the "Conan" movies. About the only draw I can see, is 'The Rock', which will no doubt bring in the 'rasslin' fans. Otherwise, the story is tripe. The comedy is forced (sticking with the cowardly side-kick and the smart-ass kid format). I should state that I haven't watched this in a theatre, or the DVD version - merely the televised version(s). However, I really don't sense I'm missing much Expand
  4. GauriS.
    Jun 17, 2002
    3
    Nothing special about this movie. Decent special effects, but it had nothing to do with The Mummy.
  5. Melissa
    May 10, 2002
    2
    The movie jumps right into action yet because it is so stupid it makes the movie funny. But we all must remember that The Rock is new to acting so of course it wasnt going to be perfect. Scorpion King sucks!!!
  6. PaulF.
    Oct 3, 2002
    2
    Jeez, I go to this movie hoping for some good stupid fun trash and all i got was stupid trash. The Rock could've been a contender, but it ends up tasting like the beer Conan pissed out.
  7. SethB.
    Apr 21, 2002
    2
    No, the Rock cannot act, we all knew that. I don't blame him though. He isn't the first action star who couldn't act. This movie was bad due to the directing. If Rock looks bad it's the director's job to make him look good, which didn't happen here. It's as if no one in the movie cared about their part in the movie, so why should anyone else?
  8. Mar 15, 2012
    2
    My god what the fu** have you people done,there is no real story,the main character is bloody invincible and there is no logic behind anything that happens in the whole movie
  9. DougDiggidy
    Oct 7, 2002
    1
    I like the Rock, but this movie should have never been made. the only reason i gave it 1 point is becuase ive never actually seen it! lol! But the trailers and commercials i've seen for it are so bad it almost comes to the point of angering me.
  10. TaylorK.
    Apr 20, 2002
    1
    One of the worst movies I have ever seen. The rock has been a bad actor sine Mummy Returns and well...he didnt change for this movie. It's a predicable chessy movie...I laughed the last 10 minutes of the movie it was so cheesy!!!
  11. RoxanneC.
    May 1, 2002
    1
    This movie just kept on going with a plot to keep the main charachter alive. I can not keep track of how many times the Rock get's hurt but doesn't die. The squeeky voiced dude sounds strangely like the other squeeky voiced guy in The Mummy. The Rock does a good job, but convienently has friends everywhere to save him. Only good for people looking for nonstop action with no blood.
  12. BubbaFresh
    Oct 5, 2002
    1
    Just like everything else Vince McMahon touches lately, this movie goes down the sh.tter. You can tell when a movie is crap when you can honestly state that the camel can outmatch the entire cast intellectually.Constant sexual teases make you realize why "nobody likes a tease". I would have given this movie "2" for the 2 times that I was minimally entertained, but then I remember that I actually paid money to see this so I took away one to get vengence. Expand
  13. JaredC.
    Aug 1, 2007
    0
    For me, this is a huge letdown. It didn't give the point nor reason why they call it The Scorpian King. It just is, because it mentions it in The Mummy movies and as a joke one time in this. But really, the writing is fine but things aren't as expected in this movie, the acting by the Rock is horrible, his acting here will give him roles in the future that are almost so bad, that its corny. But the movie is nothing more than a wrestler in a story with cheeze. Expand
  14. CliffW.
    Apr 20, 2002
    0
    Despite his looks, the rock does _not_ know how to act very well. He does however make wrestling look real.
Metascore

Mixed or average reviews - based on 30 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 30
  2. Negative: 8 out of 30
  1. The Rock manages to play both with a crude candor more genuine than the entertaining if contrived spectacle around him, and a surprising big-screen charisma and ease that makes him a natural-born screen hero.
  2. 50
    The good news about The Scorpion King is that The Rock turns out to be a charismatic, ingratiating screen presence.
  3. Isn't incompetent; it's just plodding and obvious. If anything holds it together, it's The Rock's ironic ability to tread lightly, which the movie is neither fast nor inventive enough to recognize as different from the spirit of Arnold.