The Mummy (1999)
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 37
Flat jokes and overblown effects rubbed critics raw.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 10
Flat jokes and overblown effects rubbed critics raw.
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Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 867,087
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Loosely adapted from the classic 1932 horror film starring Boris Karloff, The Mummy is set in Egypt, where over 3,000 years ago the high priest Imhotep (played by Arnold Vosloo) was given the all-important assignment of preparing the recently dead for their journey into the afterlife. However, Imhotep made one terrible mistake - he became smitten with Anck-Su-Namun, the mistress of the Pharaoh himself. Driven mad by jealousy and love, Imhotep murdered the Pharaoh, and his punishment was to be
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Cast
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Brendan Fraser
Rick O'Connell -
Rachel Weisz
Evelyn -
John Hannah
Jonathan -
Arnold Vosloo
Imhotep -
Kevin J. O'Connor
Beni -
Jonathan Hyde
Egyptologist -
Oded Fehr
Ardeth Bay -
Erick Avari
Curator -
Stephen Dunham
Henderson -
Corey Johnson
Daniels -
Tuc Watkins
Burns -
Omid Djalili
Warden -
Aharon Ipalé
Pharaoh -
Bernard Fox
Winston -
Patricia Velasquez
Anck-Su-Namun -
Carl Chase
Hook -
Mohammed Afifi
Hangman -
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All Critics (111) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (37) | DVD (39)
A hyperactive hodgepodge of monumental proportions!
Top CriticTries to have it both ways, sending up the adventure genre for laughs while also going for some mild shocks, but the sand slips through its fingers on both counts.
There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it.
It revels in its own retro-ness, and it's a hell of a lot of fun.
An unpretentious pulp adventure...
Director Stephen Sommers has a kind of soulless, leaden touch, with none of the sleek, sprightly fun this kind of movie requires.
it's easy to fall back on self-conscious humor. But if, as the author, you have to keep interrupting your story to remind the audience how dumb the material is, what's the point of telling the tale in the first place?
Audience Reviews for The Mummy
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- Evelyn: Stop! You'll kill them!
- Beni: That's the idea.
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- Evelyn: [referring to Imhotep's bodyguards] Do something Johnathan!
- Jonathan: Me?
- Evelyn: You can control them!
- Jonathan: Oh you've got to be joking!
- Evelyn: Finish the inscription on the cover idiot then you can command them!
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- Evelyn: Oh my God it's a... it's a sarcophagus. Buried at the base of Anubis. He must have been someone of great importance. Or he did something *very* naughty.
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- Beni: [translating] Come with me, my princess. It is time to make you mine, forever.
- Evelyn: For all eternity, idiot.
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- Rick O'Connell: Are you sure you want to be playing around with this thing?
- Evelyn: It's just a book. No harm ever came from reading a book.
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- Jonathan: Come on Evey faster!
- Evelyn: Patience is a virtue!
- Rick O'Connell: Not right now it isn't!
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Foreign Titles
- The Mummy (1999) (DE)
- The Mummy (1999) (CA)
