Well done computer-enhanced remake

Rating: 10/10 (8 May 1999)

The Mummy. A remake of the 1932 Boris Karloff classic. Times have changed. Nearly all of the scenes in this film are enhanced with astonishing computer graphics. Whole scenes are just computer generated - and this was well done. It's hard to say if it's real or if it's just an imagination from a high speeded 'calculator'. The movie itself has a good story, based on the original. Some 'treasure-hunters' (some are lookign for gold, others for the 'Golden Book of Amun-Ra') found a lost city. They enter it and find the 'Book of the Dead'. During reading it, they awake the mummy of 'Imhotep' - a high priest who was burried alive, because of his evil living. The war between small 'earth# powers and the inmortral mummy begins. A surprise for everyone was, that they put lots of jokes in the movie, so you also have to laugh a lot. Over all the movie was excellent. The technices used, the story and even the actors. My Tip: This is a film to see, and even if it's over 120 minutes - it's never boring...