Saturday, July 27, 2013

Scorpius Gigantus (2006)

The Russian mob hits a US convoy looking for uranium, but all they end up with is a giant scorpion, which does not appreciate their interruption of it's trip.  Major Reynolds and his crack squad of elite soldiers are sent to recover the scorpion because the scientist overseeing the genetic experiments insists the giant killing machine must be saved for further research.

And when I say the elite military team looks for the scorpion, it  means they wander around in a warehouse, and later on a ship, for 70 minutes.  But you won't even notice when they start searching the ship as the interior looks exactly the same as the interior of the warehouse.  In fact, the only reason I knew they were supposed to be on the ship is the scenes were book ended with shots of a ship.

Now you would think a movie about a giant scorpion would be exciting. Yes, you'd think that, but you'd be dead wrong.  It's mostly people walking around and when they're conversing, you wish they'd go back to walking due to their stilted acting, much of which appears to be by non-English speakers. I'm not sure whether they are phonetically pronouncing words, or if they're not very good at emoting. So I guess that tells you something about the level of acting here.

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