Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to pursue a quest for world domination. This time, O'Connell enlists the help of his wife and son to quash the so-called 'Dragon Emperor' and his abuse of supernatural power.
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"Here we go again..."
Who needs Rachel Weisz? Who needs decent special effects? Who needs an engaging plot? Hell, who even needs a fucking mummy?!
This did. Desperately.
The only film that has ever made me walk out of the cinema. It almost made me walk out of my own house..
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Directors Ranked: Rob Cohen
"Here we go again!"
Ugh, this is pretty awful...
There is an over-reliance on CGI but the issue is that the CGI is so god awful, it's ridiculous. The acting was terrible, with the exception of Brendan Fraser although Michelle Yeoh was passable. Maria Bello's accent was so over-the-top, it's like the only time she has seen/heard British people is on Downton Abbey. The story was stupid, which is the case for the other Mummy films but they were fun. This just wasn't. It was boring and ugly. The action scenes (minus one I enjoyed) are awful. It's kinda like Rob Cohen watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon one time…
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"I hate mummies"
The shift of tone is by far one of the biggest issues with this third outing. It completely disregards any horror element and focuses on physical comedy, which just doesn't work well with the franchise at all. Ultimately, this leads to an absolute disaster in character development. Fraser is a complete contrast to his previous incarnations. The re-casting with Bello doesn't necessarily ruin the film but doesn't add anything new. The action sequences are good, big in spectacle and look great with some decent CGI but that's really all the film offers.
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This was one of those movies that was so dull that I had time to nitpick all the little problems going on.
Let’s talk about Luke Ford. Is it really so hard to just put on a British accent? It’s not the hardest accent to fake, even if it sounds way too posh like Maria Bello’s one (I’ll get on to her in a second). The kid was doing some sort of American Australian hybrid. If he can’t even do an accent other than his native one, then what is he doing in a movie like this? Why was he cast? It’s not as if he’s a particularly good actor. Everytime he spoke I cringed... nobody has that accent.
And…
An obvious step down for the series, this one replaces child Alex with an adult version, (exactly who much time passes in this series from the first to the last?), replaces Rachel Weisz with Maria Bello, replaces Stephen Sommers with Rob Cohen, and replaces Egypt with China.
The changes are not improvements. Cohen directs competent action flicks, and this one is okay in that regard, (I mean, come on, Jet Li!) But overall the film just doesn't pack the same punch as it's predecessors.
There’s a big gap between The Mummy Returns and this flick – enough time for the O’Connell’s kid to turn into a man and for Evelyn to turn into a completely different actress. I read that part of the reason she couldn’t come back had to do with the fact that she had just had a baby, which I suppose is a reasonable excuse. I thought that I would hate this film the most out of the three because they had left Egypt behind for China. There are no mummies in China! But as it turned out, the fact that this film took place in China had nothing to do with why I didn’t go crazy for this flick. This…
Very bad wrap to the series.
That overused joke was better than the entire movie.
Oh dear. This is nowhere near as fun and entertaining as the first two. Doubles down on the loud CGI set-pieces, but completely loses the oddly charming mix of adventure and horror. The villain is nowhere near as memorable and it all just feels pretty soulless and lacking, building up to a jumped up fireworks display of a finale that feels massively uninspired. It's a shame the series ended on such a poor note, I was just beginning to warm up to it. Since the Tom Cruise film failed though, it's definitely time to make a belated fourth film.
How do you follow up a disappointing sequel? With one that is aggressively horrible, you silly bastard. Not once does this film justify its existence. It never should have happened. I love Brendan Fraser as a snappy adventure man, but he's given nothing to work with. Rachel Weisz was recast in an offensive downgrade with Maria Bello, who is cringe worthy at best. The writing is abysmal. The characters appear to be in a secret contest to see who can say the word "mummy" the most times. Action sequences are poorly framed, overly edited, and are downright bad. Somehow an adventure film about an undead warlord and his army of dead men winds up being boring and unintentionally hilarious. It's just obscene. Most lines are delivered horribly, making me question how many takes were used. This movie is a marvel of Blockbuster filmmaking gone wrong, and might be worth watching based on that merit alone.
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