CGI overkill

Rating: 6/10 (12 May 1999)

First off, I was never bored with this movie. There's almost nonstop action and great special effects, but I can't recommend it. The story is ooooollllllddddd. Expedition looking for a lost city and find the mummy's tomb---wow, how original. The dialogue is pathetic; the acting--well, who cares about acting in a summer movie (by the way, it's lousy); and nonstop special effects. That's the problem. It's way too special effects heavy. You're constantly being bombarded with reanimated corpses, sand storms, locusts, flesh-eating beetles, etc. etc. etc. It just wears you down after awhile. At a few points I just prayed for the effects to stop and have a plot take over. But then when people DID stop and talk the dialogue was so mindbogglingly awful, I prayed for the special effects! So, if you don't mind a plot as old as the mummy itself, lousy acting and special effects bombarding you constantly, this is your movie. Otherwise stay far, far away.