Special effects do not a film make.

Rating: 5/10 (24 June 1999)

Now this film isn't dreadful by any means. It has a (moderately) reasonable and nicely old fashioned plot with occasional witticisms. The villain is nasty, the special effects are good and the actors are, well, OK.
Unfortunately it also has several flaws. It has a large number of references to films that it has essentially copied (mainly Indiana Jones but really the whole Spielberg canon) without improving or satrizing them. The whole of the "shock" factor comes from extensive views of the undead with little thought to actual tension. The hero isn't very heroic; the heroine not worth saving.
And I'm not convinced it isn't another in a long line of stereotyping-Arabs-as-untrustworthy-savages films that have come out of America in recent years.
I'd watch the Hammer Horror film any day !