Failed in all categories but possibly special effects.

Rating: 1/10 (24 May 2000)

If the movie is supposed to be anything near a horror movie, one can safely conclude that this adaption of the classical Mummy-plot has lost most of what made the old Boris Karloff-version its depth and pathos: While the "old" mummy was driven by the search of his long-lost love, the modern mummyÂ´s only driving force seems to be a never explained lust for destructive power in a non-specific, dull way which reduced this mummy to yet another of these dimensionless "evils" typically found in your average second-rate film. Some would perhaps argue that this new Mummy-film is, in fact, more of a comedy/adventure-film than a horror film. This is, in one way, probably true but the film falls short even in those categories. The obvious resemblance to the Indiana Jones-films only reminded about how much better those films handled things in terms of plots, characters, action sequences and all other aspects, while at the same time underlining how little character of its own The Mummy actually possesses! The jokes were in generally not really funny, the adventurous parts not really exciting and - as stated above - the horror-parts not horrifying. The only reason to still watch the film would probably be to check the special effects like the sand storm, which I suggest be done in front of a video (giving the otherwise bored viewer a chance to skip the less fascinating scenes ...).