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I 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.
This Mummy movie is really two movies: a good adventure epic, with all the Chinese people, and a wan one, with O'Connells and the other the Westerners.
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.
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.
It's usually advisable to arrive for a film before it starts, but if you happen to be running late for this enjoyably brainless blockbuster, do not worry.
Miscast, fumbled action sequences, flat humor, and one of the most disjointed and problematic scripts of a major movie this year
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