First of all....I liked it.

Rating: Null/10 (13 February 2000)

First of all...I liked it. When you think of this movie, you will probably be thinking that it will be totally scary. Well think again...this is just a more serious "Abbot & Costello Meets the Mummy" movie or simply just a rip-off of "Indiana Jones". Now that doesn't mean I am down on the film, I enjoyed it. I thought the special effects were pretty good, the acting above par and it was kind of cool to see Brendan Fraser in a slightly more serious role than some of his recent films. I always enjoy seeing people break into tombs of the pharaohs and thinking that they are going to get away with all the treasures...seriously...have we ever seen someone get away with it. My point exactly. So with this in mind, we see a group of people breaking into the lost pharaoh tombs and then we see 2 hours of them trying to get away from the demons they unleashed. My faults with the movie...okay the deadly locusts appear, then the sky darkens, and zombies begin to roam the Earth...but it is up to Fraser, Weisz, and an old pharaoh guard descendant to save the world. Wait a minute, where was NATO? Where was the U.S. Air Force? Now I realize that we could not get U.S. ground troops into the area all that quickly, but surely we could have supplied Fraser with a better weapon than a shot gun. Okay, now many of you are immediately going to say, "but this took place in the 30s" and NATO or the U.S. Air Force wasn't around then....my reply to that is "so!" I still think someone in the world could have helped them out....that's my point. I think everyone will enjoy this film and it is especially fitting that it came out just before Mothers Day. Bottom line....it's a good film, just don't get to "wrapped" up with details.