Not enough mythology to go with the action

Rating: 3/10 (10 May 1999)

Let's face it, this movie was less about a cursed mummy and more about getting some cool special effects in before Star Wars: The Phantom Menace comes out. The acting was poor, the one-liners were tired, and the mythology of the mummy was only given lip service. This movie would have been much better if they had taken some of the special effects budget and used it to write a script. The special effects, however, were good. The only contrived part of the special effects I found was the recreation of ancient Egypt on the computer. Somehow, computer generated-effects always look computer-generated, something that film technology needs to catch up with.