the mutant offspring of indiana jones and alan quatermain

Rating: Null/10 (4 May 2004)

**SPOILERS**
The Mummy is one of those films that you can watch and watch again without ever getting tired of it. It's groaning under the weight of the cliches, the plot is horrifically predictable and it doesn't have a shred of originality. But that doesn't mean that I don't love it. This film definitely makes it into my top ten. In fact, 'The Mummy' was the first dvd I ever bought, and I'm still watching it. The CGI holds up enormously well, even considering the leaps and bounds we've made in the field since then.
I'm an enormous Indiana Jones fan, and Sommers has taken all my favourite things about Indiana Jones and shamelessly reused them. Fraser is brilliant as O'Connell, Rachel Weisz believable as kick ass librarian Evie, and I just loved John Hannah as her reprobate brother. Even the way his accent wavers between jolly hockey sticks and broad Edinburgh twang doesn't noticeably upset me. This is a film that doesn't take itself too seriously, and has no illusions about what it is - a couple of hours of escapist fun. don't watch this film if you get annoyed about authentic historical details. Do watch this film, if. like me, you love anything vaguely historical, and have a hero thing. I waited with bated breath for the sequel and was a little let down. But that's another story . . . .