THE MUMMY (DIDIER BECU)

Rating: 6/10 (4 September 2003)

Well, we're living in an age in where old movies are remade with a bigger budget and somewhere that can work but most of the times it's just an excuse for having some special effects and really, from the moment they are too many it gets started to bore you a bit not? Some things are excellent like those crazy scarabees (insects that crawl under the skin) but other scenes are just a bit over the top (the scene in where the mummy evokes a dusttornado). The crazy thing is that this movie balances between good adventure (the Indiana Jonesstyle) and drowning into special effects (the Phantom Menace) plus the acting is really beneath every standard (Brendan Fraser just sucks and Rachel Weisz...well I am not even going to start searching for words, just bad) but all by all a movie you can watch as it is just too professionally made to let you fall asleep.