fun, but forgettable

Rating: 4/10 (24 August 2012)

The story of a mummy works very well in old films, because the mummy is a wrapped up figure, whose reanimation is scary because of the bleakness and strangeness of the world beyond life.
Here, film makers make the mistake of trying to make it "Indiana Jones" adventure. It's pretty good, and it's fairly fun, but it's so predictable, and so cliché, it's hard to enjoy even for fun.
Still, it is watchable. It just isn't as exciting as watching to watch constant barrages of mindlessness, that are full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, as it is to watch the creeping mummy stalk those who dare to soil the tomb of the dead with their Science.
A week later, you won't remember much more than a few smirks on the lead actor's face.
It's just not very exciting.