Bury This Mummy Again

Rating: 4/10 (13 September 2000)

What could have been a fun, original, and roller-coaster ride reworking of the classic titular monster, instead turns out to be a long, effects-laden, mostly plodding kid's film, complete with the obligatory jokes only a 10-year old could laugh at.
Brendan Fraser certainly brings a welcome vigor to this lifeless movie, that is a purely special-effects driven rehash of the Universal classic. Sure, there are lots of great visuals here, the primary glory of the film being the CGI mummy, but ultimately this movie seems to fall into the same trap as Godzilla did: damn the script, full-throttle the effects.
There are no real thrills here, either: most of the action sequences are cliched, uninspired, and just plain mindless. There could have been tons of ways to make "The Mummy" at the very least be heralded at least as a kinetic thrill-ride, but you sure won't find any intensity here.
Overall, "The Mummy" is pure silliness that will no doubt have kids entranced and yourself in a trance and becoming like a mummy; that is, getting a lot of shut-eye.
4 out of 10