movie review: The Mummy Tomb of the Boring Emperor

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

first off i want to say that i HATE it when they replace an actor in a sequel.
so going into this movie i was already weary of its lack of Rachel Weisz, and the attempt to make light of it didn't help me get past it.

second the big bad villain, Emperor Han, NOT a freakin mummy at all, he happens to be undead (although i am not even sure i would count him as undead really) but in my opinion he is not a mummy. a mummy implies not just being undead but the manner in which you are preserved. if anything he is a Golem mixed with a lil bit of Zombie.

ok with those two opening flaws out of the way lets get to the rest of them.

13 years apparently separate this movie from the last in the series, even with this large gap, i find it hard to believe some of the changes in the characters relationships and personality.

Rick and Alex's relationship has become distant and strained due to (according to Evy) Rick being the typical father of the time and with holding his emotions from his child. yet in The Mummy Returns, there is nothing to imply he is anything but a loving and caring father.

also Evy becoming and author by exploiting her previous adventures as works of fiction doesn't flow right, that would be something Jonathon would do (and he does exploit the whole my mummy thing to make a night club around the theme) but not her.

Now Evy and Rick becoming spy's during the war, that i can buy, and thus there boredom with retirement i can also buy.

quick side note, the first Mummy movie was set in the 1926 and this one in 1946.... thus making Evy and Rick a possible 20 years older than they were in the first movie.... there both looking very good for there advanced age.

back to the movie.

some simple plot elements also just seem to not fall into place for me. how does becoming immortal give you the ability to become a dragon.... seriously tell me how that works. if it does then why did the two immortal girls not just become dragons and kick his arse.

ok enough with the bad.

guess what, i liked the movie, yup all that bitching and i still kinda dug it, its a movie you can sit down turn your brain off and enjoy. it obviously could of been better and been better easily, but after your third trip to the well sometimes you don't have enough water to fill the bucket.

the action sequences where fair and entertaining, the special affects where not awe inspiring but they were far from tacky at the same time. mostly it was just a great ball of average. and there is nothing wrong with average.

so not as good as the first and second ones but hell if you don't own the first two already i say get the Trilogy pack. although the packaging for the old trilogy pack (where they included the scorpion king as one of the films for some demented reason) was way cooler looking.

that's it. that's my review, do with it what you will. and i hope you enjoyed it.