Good, but a "rip off of style"

Rating: 7/10 (9 May 1999)

The film industry is running dry when it comes to style, technique, and stories. "The Mummy" is a good film. I personally found it quite entertaining (I'd say 7 out of 10 stars). But I'm not making a comment on how entertaining the film was.
The director, Stephen Sommers, borrowed the style for the film. The Mummy starts out very original but as the film progresses it suddenly developed a mood, look, and feel that reminded me of something. When I thought about it I realized what it was. The script and directing style slowly turned into the same as Sam Raimi (Evil Dead I, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness).
Suddenly the film shifts tracks from an intense horror film where you are on the end of your seat, waiting to get scared and fall in or out of you seat; to a horror film with slap sticky zombie mummies loosing limbs and doing Three Stooges style humor (Ala Evil Dead I & II and Army of Darkness). At one point a mummy's hand gets chopped off and it crawls around and tries to kill the hero (Brendan Friser). The film also has the "magic books" that raise the dead. Now normally these characteristics slip into film and you can't say "Hey that's like in..." But this film is crammed full of Sam Raimi traits. All the film needed was a chain saw wheedling Bruce Campbell-isc character and they would be in a position to be sued.
Now I'm not saying that the film is not good, it is a very entertaining film. What I am saying is the following:
The film is a step up from Stephen Sommers' last film Deep Rising.
If you are a Sam Raimi fan and would be offended by seeing his style of writing directing don't see the Mummy, or see it and complain to all your friends.
If you are a Sam Raimi fan and would be pleased to see some one use his style see the film.
If you have or are going to see the film, see Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness, or any other Sam Raimi film so you can see the similarities.