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12/06/05
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The Mummy (1999)
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Reviews Counted:80
Fresh:43
Rotten:37
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Flat jokes and overblown effects rubbed critics raw.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: In the 1920s, a group of archaeologists led by adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) discovers the mummified body of Imhotep, an Egyptian priest who was cursed for falling in love with the... [More]
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo
Director: Stephen Sommers
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12/08/02
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05/11/01
Spectacle, rowdy adventure and supernatural horror all crammed into a raucous two hours of high-testosterone special-effects filmmaking!
01/01/00
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06/18/02
Top CriticThe Mummy's action scenes are adroitly staged, and they show off Fraser's rugged hero persona to best effect.
01/01/00
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01/01/00
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg pioneered this new-yet-old approach in the 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones' series, and the formula is viable enough to make 'The Mummy' popular with its target teenage audience.
01/01/00
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07/08/04
The Mummy is much less a mum-walks-among-us story than a blatant rip-off of the Indiana Jones films with a sarcophagus full of dazzling computer graphics.
01/01/00
The Mummy, quite shamelessly, combines the imagery and serialized thrills of the Indiana Jones movies with the frenetic special-effects energy of the Evil Dead movies, and has quite a bit of fun in doing so.
01/01/00
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01/01/00
Jump back, monster-mashers; The Mummy mambos!
01/01/00
There are a few jump-in-your-seat moments of pure fright, but this "Mummy" has more in common with Indiana Jones than Boris Karloff.
02/27/01
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11/07/02
A great Indiana Jones movie without Indiana Jones.
07/09/02
Check your brain at the door, and enjoy the bumpy ride, cause this one will have you laughing, screaming and sighing your way into the mysterious world of ancient Egypt and its spooky-dooky myths.
01/01/00
...like that big, dumb, lovable dog you had as a kid, you can't help liking it.
05/01/01
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