First rate romp

Rating: 9/10 (19 December 2010)

To remake The Mummy in the style of Indiana Jones but with a humorous edge was a stroke of genius, and it is executed very well in this movie.
Brendan Fraser nominally heads a cast who all perform very well, but Arnold Vosloo's Imhotep hits the number one spot as far as I'm concerned (although I have a distinct soft spot, if that's the right expression, for Patricia Velasquez' gold painted costume as Anck Su Namun.
The action practically never lets up, especially in the last 40 minutes or so, and his helped along by equal quantities of wisecracks and special effects. Although the standard of integrated CGI has been improved on subsequently, the effects here were near cutting edge at the time and always work well in service of the story.
And, above everything else, The Mummy is vastly entertaining.