Predictable but entertaining adventure comedy

Rating: 7/10 (23 March 2017)

Indiana Jones is stupid, fun camp adventure, and so is 'The Mummy', but at least Indy was 80's camp whereas 'The Mummy' is 90's camp. 1990's adventure comedy is the worst. There's cultural stereotypes and chauvinist jokes aplenty, stupid slapstick, pointless characters (their only purpose being a silly death scene), the plot is contrived and predictable and there is no research into actual Egyptian mythology.
Still, it's entertaining. Rachel Weisz is beautiful (though incompetent and hopelessly in love with the macho protagonist), Brendan Fraser shines as a scoundrel hero and the movie mixes horror tropes into the adventure which is always fun.
The CGI mummy is a little dated. Boris Karloff's powerful and frightening mummy looked better, though the movie he starred in was much more boring than this one.