A Raiders type adventure.

Rating: 8/10 (24 April 2003)

This movie and its sequel remind me a lot of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (this one more so). It is a great fast paced action movie with the only real horror being the fact the good guys are up against a mummy. This one had the better plot of the two mummy movies, but the sequel had the better action so I like them about the same. This one has them discovering the lost city and awakening the mummy from his sleep. He starts out all rotted, but as he kills the group that awoke him he regains his former body. Brendan Fraser is rather good in this one as the hero. The rest of the cast does rather good too, though no real big name stars were used in the other roles. Some pretty good special effects too, though they are definitely not the best ever witnessed on the big screen. This movie is just an old-fashioned action movie though so it works. The scenes in the pyramids and stuff were better than the tomb raider movie was...in fact this one was more like the tomb raider games than the tomb raider movie was. Some comedy is also thrown into the mix as well. All an all a well-rounded adventure movie.