Another great budget wasted.

Rating: 5/10 (1 July 1999)

Remember Stargate? Well this is similar, i.e. a potentially great idea ruined. Egypt offers so much to any storyteller to go mad with, yet no one does.
Here we have a film with fantastic special effects, a pretty scary idea, (playing on the old curse of the pharoahs) and a reasonable cast. The opportunity to create bone shaking myths and to bring something otherworldly into 'The Mummy' was missed. Instead we are treated to a run-of-the-mill action film, with cheesy lines that, unlike Armageddon, just aren't funny. Rachel Whatever battles bravely to introduce some acting to cinemagoers, but all to no avail as Brendan Fraser and the zany fella with the fez all but mess it up.
Despite the amazing stories that constitute Egypt's history, Raiders of the Lost Ark remains the best film to touch upon that magnificent country.