*** out of ****

Rating: Null/10 (19 May 1999)

"The Mummy" is an exercise in creativity. I was surprised at all the fascinating and fun scenes and ideas that roam the film, although this doesn't make it a great movie; not even a very good one, but a good one nevertheless. I actually cringed at a few scary scenes, and no, they didn't involve the scarab beetles. The movie's light humor is also a plus. There were a lot of original and exciting action sequences in the film and I also like that it was aware of itself at times. For example, the scene where Evelyn and Jonathan open the book of the dead for the first time and slight wind blows over the camp fire, Jonathan's line being "That happens a lot," is very clever. This is definitely a movie worth seeing once, if not twice or however many times you want.