Perfect

Rating: Null/10 (17 January 2003)

It´s sad that today every film is expected to outrun others, that´s what gets some people to wrinkle their noses at the mention of "The Mummy".
It´s not Indiana Jones and it DOESN´T have to be.
"The Mummy" is one of my favorite adventure movies simply because it´s perfect. There´s this universe and these delightful characters! From Rick, Evelyn and Jonathan to the american treasure hunters to the Medjais. They´re all fantastic characters and the pacing of the movie allows you to slowly fall in love with them.
Brendan Fraser is absolutely perfect as Rick O´Connell, he´s a very versatile actor and totally believable and honest in everything he does.
Rachel Weisz is fantastic! We need more heroine´s like Evelyn Carnahan.
John Hannah and Oded Fehr also did a great job, not to mention Arnold Vosloo.
So it wasn´t like the old Mummy movies - so what - it´s a new movie, and it´s perfect in it´s own rights. It´s not horror, it´s adventure.
"The Mummy Returns" does fail to focus too much on special effects but it´s still a good, fun movie. Besides we already know the characters and love them. The plot was a bit confusing but still works. It would work better if there was a Mummy 3 to come.
The Mummy is certainly popular and all I can say is I can´t get enough of it, it´s just a fun, entertaining movie... honestly, what else do people need?