Hunt for the Golden Scorpion (1991)
In the deepest, most remote part of the Amazon, a treasure is hidden! A treasure so valuable that men would kill for it, women would undress for it, and entire armies would fight for it !
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Simply A Masterpiece
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
HUNT FOR THE GOLDEN SCORPION is one of the very last Indiana Jones-style jungle adventure films made by the Italians, and like most Italian B-movies made at the turn of the 1990s, it's completely dreadful. The almost entire lack of money doesn't help; the budget extended to some authentic locations but that's about it. Poor old Umberto Lenzi directs with none of the style he displayed thirty, twenty, even ten years previously. An unknown cast work through a lacklustre script in which David Brandon (of STAGE FRIGHT fame) is jailed by bad guys, leading the bland hero to attempt a rescue. A few RAMBO-style village assaults and fire fights punctuate the tedium, but the main plot is never convincing and the whole thing is dragged out to the nth degree.