adventures in the old style

Rating: 8/10 (28 January 2006)

The high-priest Imhotep was in love with ank-sun-amun, the wife of the Pharaoh, when they were catched, he was condemned to the worst of the hexes, become the Mummy. 3000 years later, he is able to awake and he will do everything is needed to return his love to life. Meanwhile, Rick O'Conell and Evelyn (the ones who have awaken the mummy) will do all they could to stop the Mummy, because, if he wins, the world will be destroyed. It is a precious adventures movie like the best classics of the genre. It has spectacular Special Effects, too: the scene of Imhotep turned into a sand storm catching and airplane is superb, for example, and not is the only good FX scene... One of the best secondary characters is Evelyn's brother, the typical dumb character that puts the comic note in it, curiously, results really funny and it never bores in his not so selfish acts. In the plot there is something to show. How the good loving imhotep turns later in the evil Mummy? I realize that his death can make him a little angry, but it results a little curious. (In the second part become clear that he is not bad, but that he will not any effort for being good, he only wants to be with her love and the other thing are irrelevant). One thing to unline is the surprisingly good acting of Vosloo as the Mummy, without speaking almost anything, it results perfect convincing, and you can know lots of things about his personality, only by his actions. To sum up, this is a good adventures film to enjoy the time seeing a classic adventure movie, that can be condensed in three phrases: save the pretty girl, kill the bad one, save the world.