Entertaining, but don't expect too much.

Rating: 5/10 (14 May 1999)

The Mummy is not a terrible movie. It's entertaining and enjoyable, especially after the first half-hour or so, which is rushed as if the director were in a hurry. I'd much rather sit through a longer movie, as long as it's directed better than this one.
The acting is not bad: Fraser, Weisz, and Hannah deliver, although the three Americans and O'Connor are all given characters filled with stereotypes, and Vosloo is not all that scary.
Technically the movie is very good. The cinematography is warm and wrapping, and the art direction beautifully and realistically sets the story in Egypt. The visual effects and the makeup are astonishing, and with Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack, are by far the best things of the whole movie.
What lacks here is a solid story line. Virtually all the characters are forced to pronounce obvious or ridiculous lines from time to time, and the only good things are the occasional jokes thrown in the plot just to make the audience laugh and maybe forgive the lack of a better screenplay.
The original was by far better than this one, and definitely scarier.
This movie set an opening record, but it's worth to watch only if you've got nothing better to do, nothing better to see, and nowhere better to go.