The quiet moments are few. The music from composer Alan Silvestri is nearly constant. One is a man with superhuman resolve. Another is a woman who knows her way around tridents and swords.
Thousands are rabid soldiers, sort of mutant mummy canines outfitted in Egyptian battle gear.
The special effects team must have been working overtime. Sommers said he wanted to outdo himself. And that he has. The Scorpion King tries to conquer the world but is defeated, driven into the desert and left without a single soldier. He sells his soul to the dark god Anubis and sets the stage for his eventual return, and that of an evil army that recedes into the sand, ready to fight another day.