An Ancient Curse, Flesh Eating Scarab Beetles And FantasticEffects.

Rating: 9/10 (27 April 1999)

The Mummy is a fantastic film. It has everything - An ancient curse, flesh eating scarab beetles, a great cast, fantastic special effects and amazing costumes and sets.
There is enough tension to keep you on the edge of your seat and some brilliant one-liners to make you laugh. It's not a remake of the old horror film, or a dire version of an Anne Rice book, but a great action adventure film with some nasty little touches.
Rick O'Connell, the super cool action hero knows the location of The City of the Dead, where the Pharaohs buried the weath of ancient Egypt. Evelyn (an awful librarian & Eyptologist) and her shady brother Johnathan want to go to to find artefacts and treasure.
A rival group of explorers finds a book, and O'Connell and friends find a 'moist' mummy. Evelyn opens the book and reads from it, reviving the long dead Imhotep. Imhotep wants to revive his long dead love (by sacrificing Evelyn) and take over the world.
So, it's up to Rick O'Connell and friends to rescue the girl, kill the bad guy and save the world!
Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) is super cool, with a bit of Jack Burton (Kurt Russell in "Big Trouble in Little China"), John Hannah is extremely funny, and Rachel Weisz is brilliant and looked very nice wearing a veil.
This is a great film. Do yourself a favour and see it.