True cinematic entertainment!

Rating: 10/10 (2 June 2013)

The Mummy is without a doubt absolutely everything that embodies the term 'Hollywood'
What we have here is a slick, fast paced, funny and action packed film full of mystique and wonder.
To start with the film looks amazingly lush with it's golden hue running throughout. Everything is spot on from the lighting to the sets right down to the last dusty detail. The CGI may not be as high resolution as today's standards but it still looks absolutely tremendous and really suits the tone of the film.
The plot is a pretty obvious homage to the Indiana Jones series but it not once falls foul of plagiarism and instead takes the idea and expands on it so much as to make it truly it's own film. Fraser is great as the Indy type adventurer and paired with the stunning Rachel Weiss the pair have a great on screen chemistry that's nicely bounced off of John Hannah and Omid Djalili's comic characters.
Writer/director Steven Somers manages to give the characters some genuinely snappy and funny dialogue and the action comes in boatloads but is never gruesome, gratuitous or falls back on gore which is actually a very hard thing to do especially in these days of de- sensitivity when everything has to be harsher.
I simply can't praise this film enough, it's just pure cinematic entertainment full of thrills, spills, romance and visuals. It's strange that The Mummy actually comes off as a much better film of the genre than Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull since the latter series basically created the genre.
One of the rare treats to come from a director and team who really believe in what they are doing, and it shows!