Serving as both a remake to the 1933 film and thus as an action horror movie, The Mummy gives us the thrills of fighting and action as well as CGI special effects. It tells the story of an Egyptian priest who, in Ancient Egypt, has committed a terrible crime and is cursed to be mummified alive. 3,000 years later, in the 1920s, the movie has an adventurer, a librarian and her clumsy brother (who always seems to get in the way) and some other adventurers and scholars digging in Ancient Egypt, but they accidently awake the mummy who comes back and unleashes the ten Egyptian curses upon the world.
The movie is mostly faithful to Egyptian customs and religions and does have a little of the usual action humor in it so that it’s not depressing.
Brenden Fraser takes the lead role, and it surprises me that the filmmakers chose him after seeing his performance in George of the Jungle. Fraser isn’t exactly your Indiana Jones hero, nor is the Mummy exactly a good successor to Indiana Jones.
You can say that the movie overdoes the special effects, which it does. It’s very exciting but the acting was so-so and not at all top rate. But the Mummy still gives us an exciting action horror flick.
Grade: B-
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