Watched Scorpion King 2: Rise of A Warrior on Universal last night. I am always fascinated by cinematic special effects, and I really had no other choice because Archer was replaying itself to death. Sadly, this came across to me as a B grade movie. Many scenes, especially those in the beginning, looked as though they were shot on hand-me-down sets from the Atlantis TV series. As to the eventual sets composed by computer, they were either video game backgrounds or downright pretentious.

The male lead has a constant, studied-in-the-mirror frown on his face. It occurred to me that he might have been auditioning for the next episode of Conan. That campy costume doesn't help him any. Why are costume designers so fixated on the Mad Max look for primitive sexy? This one is too much of a "creation", and looks like the summer outfit of Edward Scissorhands.