The first
Mummy was a gem, a diamond in the rock. The
second was Universal pushing their luck, this las one is best unseen. The
third movie in the Mummy trilogy happens during World War II, and it
has way too much going on after the fortieth minute—and not enough before that.
This time, we’re not dealing with an Egyptian mummy like we did in The Mummy (1999)
and The
Mummy Returns (2001), so there’s no Imhotep. Instead, the bad guy
is a Chinese tyrannical warlord called the Dragon Emperor.
The movie isn’t
spectacular, and it deals with too many daddy and son issues. Maria Bello’s
acting as someone with martial arts and fighting skills wasn’t bad to see, but
the rest of the cast were swamped in too many action scenes requiring guns and
explosions to be as impressive as they were in the previous two films.
All that comedic and awesome supporting cast that made the first two movies
magnificent? Gone. All we have is just too much fighting.
But as things
go, the mummy gets resurrected again. The people behind the resurrection, as
you can guess, are the O’Connells. Now, as they’ve done in the previous movies,
they must work with the people guarding the mummy (who, again, never do a good
job at guarding) to stop him.
The movie was a
commercial success but not a critical one. The pacing could have been done
better, and the writing removed all the comedy, making the movie too serious
for its own good. I ended up missing the presence of Imhotep and his lover
Anck-su-namun.
The series was
supposed to get a fourth movie, with the cast from this film set to reprise
their roles and Antonio Banderas planned to be the new bad guy. However,
Universal pulled the plug on this and decided to launch their Dark Universe
franchise instead, with The Mummy (2017) reboot as the first film in
the upcoming series.
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