A fun roller-coaster ride, but mildly unfulfilling and lacking depth.

Rating: 6/10 (10 May 1999)

An exciting series of action sequences, but with stereo-type cardboard characters that lack depth and sufficient backstory. The effects, while beautiful are too extreme to be believed and lack the majesty and feeling of history of the real Egypt.
There are so many good legends, curses and settings in real Egyptology that the computer generated ones used in this film are disappointing. After a while you are just waiting for them to say "Oh no ! A million computer generated bugs are after us again !"
The Indiana Jones films had the same problems and mixed in some actual history and a logical set of threats.
This film has booby traps that nobody but an idiot would set off (of course one predictably does just that) and illogical things like mummies that crawl out of the earth where there is no reason to believe they would have been buried. Also except for the main Mummy the Egyptian priests didn't intend to get loose, those lame boody traps and some killer bugs, there is no real guardians of the terribly overdone mega-treasure. I would have expected it to be looted away to nothing eons ago.