Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
1.5/4
This sequel should have stayed buried.
filmfan09 - wrote on 03/14/2009
The first two Mummy movies were far from action masterpieces, but when you compare them to this crappy film, they seem like Oscar contenders. The movie lacks the central chemistry that made the first two films fun and charming and without the director Stephen Sommers or Rachel Weisz playing Evie, what the point of making another movie? Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh are completely wasted in their roles. The action sequences are warmed over leftovers from The Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean.
Luke Ford was a bad choice to pick for the 21-year-old son, Alex. I found him quite annoying to watch. I think the worst mistake of all they made was recasting the leading female. If for some reason the actress/actor who carried the role in the first two movies can't or won't come back …
Rating of
1/4
A Complete Waste of Time
newmans_own - wrote on 08/07/2008
It’s difficult to decide which aspect of the film is most ridiculous. I suppose it could be the title, which is misleading. There isn’t actually a mummy in the film. Sure, there are ancient figures raised from the dead, but they’re more like cursed zombies than mummies. Unless they cut out the actual mummification process, that is. Regardless of the villain’s post-life status, Li pales in comparison with the evil and all-powerful Imhotep. Aside from the desire to rule and control all, there’s really nothing to the Emperor. And how exactly he got all his magical powers is really anybody’s guess.
The other newcomers don’t fare very well either. Although Maria Bello is a fine actress in her own right, she seems next to useless trying to fill Weisz’s shoes. The key …
Rating of
1/4
Letdown,Letdown,Letdown. This is Awful.
LeopardExplosion - wrote on 08/06/2008
I like The first mummy movie of the series, yuh know why? because it was a decent movie. It wasn't even really good. The sequel was just as good and the third film of the Mummy Franchise, 'Tomb of the Dragon Emperor', is f***in' awful.
They changed O'Connell's wife and switched up for another actress, and brought it down just a bit from that. There was nothing wrong with his original wife. The original director of the Mummy Series was fine too. But Rob Cohen destroyed the series as we know it. Pointless action, Yetis, and China seem like a cool mummy concept, but now that it's here, Egypt was the way to go.
I was tempted to leave half-way through because it was such a letdown. Even humongous fighting scenes didn't keep me in that theatre long enough, This movie CANNOT keep it's …
Rating of
2.5/4
Third Time Not as Charming for The Mummy
Chris Kavan - wrote on 08/03/2008
The mummy franchise always seemed like a half-hearted, albeit with its own charm, attempt at reworking the Indiana Jones movies with more humor, lots of action but couldn't quite capture that heart.
The third installment of the franchise moves away from those stuffy Egyptian mummies and brings out a fresh Chinese mummy/statue in the from of Jet Li playing the titular Dragon Emperor. He controls fire, ice, wind, earth, metal - you would think he could use these powers to better effect, but it would make for a very short film (not to mention all our heroes would be, well, dead). Still, the occasional fireball or icy patch manages to keep the good guys on their toes.
Speaking of good guys, Brendan Fraser doesn't seem old enough yet to hand off his headlining hero role to a younger …
Rating of
1.5/4
Army of Darkness without the comedy
BryanFury - wrote on 08/02/2008
I hate to see the rule of gravity apply to a franchise that unexpectedly brings back the audience's interests to ancient Egypt, pharaohs and of course mummies who we all loved to hate. Well to me it is hard to see the Mummy franchise reduced to a mere shadow of their former selves. The mummy 3 is something one could call a fall from grace. Tomb of the Dragon Emperor take us forward twenty years after O'Conner defeated Imhotep and by this time so many things has changed. Most noticeably is the absence of Rachel Weis who is replaced by a blander Maria Bello. Their lives is supposedly peaceful now and ordinary which is not the usual adrenalin pumping ancient exploits they were used to twenty or so years back. Then suddenly Alex O’Connor who’s now all grown up has become an adventurer …
