A good choice to spent your Saturday night.

Rating: 5/10 (18 October 1999)

When I first heard about `The Mummy' I thought it would be one of Hollywood's overproduction movies that require a good cinema with Dolby surround sound, hi-tech projection machines and of course a big pack of pop-corn in order to enjoy the astounding special effects and the breathtaking actions scenes. Usually this kind of movies are depended on their Visual Effects because the screenplay is very poor. But when I saw the movie I realized that I was wrong. Mummy's story is depended on an ancient Egyptian legend about Hamunaptra `the city of the dead'. It is said that there, under the sand, it is buried for 30.000 years the ultimate evil, the mummy of an ancient priest who disobeyed the orders of the Pharaoh and fell in love with his wife. The movie has a fair screenplay with immediate responses that some times are really good and some times dead as dodo and boring. Brendan Frazer (you must remember his from `George of the jungle' or `God and Monsters') is playing his role quite good. However, the most powerful feature of the movie is the amazing scenes and the astounding Visual Effects (made by `Industrial Light & Magic': Star Wars Series). To sum up Mummy is a good choice to spend your Saturday night and watching it you may feel like watching an `Indiana Jones' movie. Rating: 5,9/10