Not bad.

Rating: Null/10 (6 July 1999)

I had a choice, between seeing "The Mummy" or "The Phantom Menace" and I chose The Mummy, because I couldn't be bothered sitting in a cinema seat for about 130 minutes. To my surprise, this one clocked in at over two hours. Silly me.
The Mummy had really masterful special effects and I'll leave it at that. The rest of the movie with all it's boring dialogue, trying to set up the legend of the Imhotep or whatever his name is, had me waiting impatiently for the big explosions and stuff that you come to expect from blockbusters.
Rachel Weisz was good and so was John Hannah. His scene where he escapes the hoards of mummy worshippers by turning around and chanting like a zombie had me laughing out loud.
All in all, not a bad movie, but it really drags in the middle. Incredibly violent too, not that it worries me, but this is a kiddie flick, as indicated by the American PG-13 rating. I feel sorry for people in the UK, having 14 seconds cut. When will the BBFC stop being so uptight?? It's only a movie!
I should have seen Star Wars............sigh...........
Australian Classification:
M15+ Medium Level Violence, Supernatural Themes (or something like that.)