Deeply Flawed.

Rating: 6/10 (22 November 2000)

*Warning. There May Be Brief Spoilers.*
My friend had recommended The Mummy to me, he told me it was an excellent flick. The Mummy is far from excellent. Even great or good is exaggerating. This film is a mess, it could of been a spectacular action flick if it wasn't let down by a disgustingly poor script and lots of acting flaws.
The movie opens in Ancient Egypt, a voice over tells us the story of forbidden love between the scantily clad Pharaoh's wife and the high priest Imhotep. It is of course a story with a tragic end for the prohibited lovers as she is murdered and mummified and he is buried alive with an obscene amount of Scarab beetles to gnaw at his flesh. Cut to 1925 and O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) and a group of legionnaires are fending off the remnants of the Ancient Pharaoh's Royal guards who have kept a pact over the centuries to keep Imhotep's tomb from being discovered. Confident that they have vanished all the intruders the guards retreat , unaware that Rick has inadvertently discovered their secret. Thus enuses copious amounts of adventure and Mummy gahs as our hero, now accompanied by Evelyn (Rachel Weisz), Jonathan (John Hannah) and a hoard of expendable extras resurrect the ancient evil and then run away and hide.
The Mummy is sometimes an entertaining feature film, and it is a joy to watch Fraser try and do something a little less George-of-the-Jungle-ish, but, this is an extremely poor flick in the sense of how much quality and cleverness it provides.
Prepare to be entertained during action sequences, but just take note, most audiences won't exactly be that spellbound with The Mummy.
I rate The Mummy 6 out of 10.