The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Average Rating: 3.7/10
Reviews Counted: 169
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 147
With middling CG effects and a distinct lack of fun, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor finds the series past its prime.
Average Rating: 3.6/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 35
With middling CG effects and a distinct lack of fun, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor finds the series past its prime.
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The Fast and the Furious director Rob Cohen continues the tale set into motion by director Stephen Sommers with this globe-trotting adventure that finds explorer Rick O'Connell and son attempting to thwart a resurrected emperor's (Jet Li) plan to enslave the entire human race. It's been 2,000 years since China's merciless Emperor Han and his formidable army were entombed in terra cotta clay by a double-dealing sorceress (Michelle Yeoh), but now, after centuries in suspended animation, an ancient
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Cast
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Brendan Fraser
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Jet Li
Emperor Han -
Maria Bello
Evelyn O'Connell -
John Hannah
Jonathan Carnahan -
Michelle Yeoh
Zi Yuan -
Luke Ford
Alex O'Connell -
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
General Yang -
Isabella Leong
Lin -
Liam Cunningham
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David Calder
Roger Wilson -
Russell Wong
Ming Guo -
Jessey Meng
Choi -
Tian Liang
Li Zhou -
Albert Kwan
Chu Wah
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All Critics (170) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (149) | DVD (7)
Making the farcical tenor of the recent Indiana Jones film feel like a paragon of dramatic and archaeological integrity, this phoned-in action threequel doesn't even have the good grace to deliver on its title and feature any mummies
Top CriticI was never a fan of the first two, but those are masterpieces compared to this clunk 'o junk.
For a movie about the undead, this lacks any supernatural chills, and by the time its obligatory final showdown arrives, it seems as hollow as the terra cotta soldiers brought to life by CGI.
The best news about this clangorous clunker is that it may well have vanquished the Mummy franchise.
Remarkably, the plot has much in common with Hellboy II: The Golden Army, yet that bundle of fun has enough vision to make even its Barry Manilow interlude seem appropriate.
The story is no more than a thread stitching set pieces of increasing implausibility and ineptitude.
Pray that this is a franchise that's dead for good this time.
A movie series called The Mummy is naturally going to have a limited focus. Universal might have been better off focusing on the various adventures of Rick and Evelyn to give them a wider range of material. But they haven't, so mummies it is.
The makers of the wildly lucrative Mummy franchise are flogging a dead corpse ... the adventure that's been disinterred is more than a little whiffy.
It's a deafening, blinding department store Blu-ray demo reel that's spun wildly out of control...Tomb takes the franchise to a stunning new low."
I too wish this Mummy stayed dead and buried.
obviously the low-grade stuff: users will get their fix but recognize it's been cut too thin, no matter how many bells and whistles were crammed into the mainframe.
...this thing is cursed.
It's not meant to be a thought-provoking, intelligent film. It's meant to be an action flick with cool special effects and plenty of monsters trying to kill our heroes.
Extras on the disc are limited to a good natured and reasonably interesting full length audio commentary by director Rob Cohen and a reel of deleted and extended scenes.
How anyone ever thought there was more than one movie in the Mummy concept, I don't know.
Not exactly mummy dearest, the movie does have a supply of magical moments of stylish sorcery in store. It's just that if you're a bit of a purist about archaeological flights of fancy, you're not likely to dig it.
Another enjoyable bit of high adventure and malarkey.
Not groundbreaking, but good fun.
A capable and highly watchable action adventure flick.
The possibility of a fourth film is alluded to in the screenplay, but let's hope the filmmakers decide to leave that one where it belongs -- in the crypt.
As we move from city to desert to mountains, the action gets more frenetic and increasingly silly, which is no bad thing in a Mummy movie.
Audience Reviews for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
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- Jonathan Carnahan: I hate mummies! They never play fair!
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- Maguire: I'd tell you to fasten your seatbelts, but I was too cheap to buy any! [laughs]
- Rick O'Connell: [laughs] Why am I laughing?
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Foreign Titles
- Die Mumie: Das Grabmal des Drachenkaisers (DE)
