Scorpion

So far, the majority of Crown International Pictures films I've watched have been sex comedies, and pretty much all of them have been sub-par. My next was SCORPION, a Crown action film, and I can report that it's as inept as their comedies. This comes across as a cheap knock-off of a Chuck Norris movie lacking the pure entertainment value of a Cannon film from the same era.

The extraordinarily wooden Tonny Tulleners stars in the titular role, playing a secret agent used by the American government. When personal tragedy hits he goes on a killing spree to bring down the terrorist group responsible. What this all boils down to is a mixture of dodgy emoting and exposition scenes mixed with some very lacklustre action bits.

Tulleners obviously has some skill in the martial arts stakes but the fight scenes are so slow and laborious that any true fan of the martial arts will merely laugh at them. I can't help but feel that SCORPION could have been a good film, somehow, despite the deficiencies of the budget; it has potential, perhaps. But in the hands of documentary maker William Riead it's a really inept movie.