Mummy without a soul

Rating: 1/10 (7 June 1999)

The Mummy is complete pants! Badly researched, terribly scripted, and acted with grim disgust by the entire cast. This film stinks as much as it abuses the audience's intelligence. It plagiarises films it so desperately wants to be (Indiana Jones, the English Patient and Aliens) without understanding what made them good - characters not formula. As a result a lot of people die who we don't care for, and without sexual chemistry the romantic comedy is t-e-r-r-i-b-l-y forced. Even the special effects are soulless. The greatest crime though is John Hannah. What is he doing in this film? They can't have paid him enough.