Severance does her best in the role of Black Scorpion, not being relied on much to fight her criminals, so she gets a few shots in that allow her to remain the alpha superhero in her city without revealing the flaws in the choreography. "Black Scorpion" is admittedly a cheese and absolutely campy hero origin tale that takes advantage of the C grade special effects and acting from the cast and delivers a romp that is something quite satisfying to sit through and never goes too over the top. You have to love how a normal car thief can build a Scorpion-mobile from scratch, or how Black Scorpion can disappear and outrun everyone in the blink of an eye. Watching it again after so many years it still holds up considerably as a movie not to be taken too seriously, and if you watch it with the ability to divorce yourself from high expectations, it might please on some gut level as it did me. Did I mention how hot Severance is?

Still a cheesy and awfully campy superhero schlock gem, "Black Scorpion" is a goofy but rather entertaining comic book romp that uses its resources well, and knows how to flaunt its leggy sexy star completely.