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.
Universal Pictures China Film Co-Production Corporation Relativity Media Alphaville Films Sommers Company, The
The only film that has ever made me walk out of the cinema. It almost made me walk out of my own house..
"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.
Universal. Blu-Ray
2.35:1
Color
35mm
12
"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.
37
I am a pretty big fan of the Stephen Sommers directed, 'The Mummy.' Everything about that movie was so over-the-top, but done in an admirable way that creates this strange feeling of emotion and logic mixing that I rarely feel during movies.
"Why do I like this? It's bad. OH WOW!! Did you just see Brendan Fraser scream at the mummy for absolutely no reason??!! What a riot! Wait, what was a I saying?"
The second Mummy was okay, but after a long-awaited return to the Mummy franchise, I went to the theaters with my mom to see this..... aaaannnnddddddd my 12 year-old heart was obliterated. Everything I loved about the original was absolutely atrocious here. I hated EVERYTHING. Even as a kid, I knew this film was utter garbage. The stupid action scenes, the bad acting, terrible writing, and incoherent plot made me wary of ever returning to 'The Mummy.'
P.S. I did and it is still fucking awesome
(I was watching this with the PMI commentary)
To start off, this came out in a month after THE DARK KNIGHT. I went to see THE DARK KNIGHT, for my 4th time, with my friend, who happened to have cancer at the time. After THE DARK KNIGHT ended, we wanted to see another movie, but had no money. My friend told the ticket guy that he had cancer, and the ticket man gave us free tickets to...
THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR
...and I remember enjoying it like I would've probably given it like a 3/5, at the time.
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Somehow a better father-son adventure film than the Indiana Jones movie that came out a few months earlier. Which is saying something because this movie is awful.
I refuse to accept it as a part of "The Mummy" Trilogy because it has no Rachel Weisz in it.
"The Mummy" franchise should have just ended. A lot works against this movie. The first problem is one of the passage of time. The first Mummy sequel took place 10 years after the original. I could kind of buy that, it was a tiny little stretch to think 10 years had gone buy...but this movie takes place like 10 or 12 years AFTER The Mummy Returns, so now 20 odd years have passed since the original. Hard to buy. Also Fraser's hairpiece looks horrendous.
The movie has no mummies as well, it has clay monsters, but they are called mummies every 2 minutes to remind the audience this is a Mummy movie. Bello is also not 1/10th as charming playing Evelyn as Weisz was. The villain's motives are constantly unclear, and the whole movie just never felt as thrilling or fun as the first two. As far as I am concerned the Mummy series has run it's course.
The fact that this Mummy movie has no 'Mummy' in it should tell you all you need to know. Oh well, at least I got to learn about how the Great Wall and Terrocotta warriors were made!
PS. the movie carries on the noble Mummy franchise tradition of subpar CGI. Seriously, how did this come out the same year as Iron Man?
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