it is what it is

Rating: 9/10 (6 October 2006)

I just watched this last night for like the... well I really have no idea how many times I've seen this movie, but anyways I just got the "The Mummy Collectors Edition" from Best Buy yesterday, watched the movie like I said "last night", and now I'm telling people what I think. OK so I'm not the best judge cuz I'm a fan of Brendan Fraser, sue me! I put these movies in my collection between Frankenstein for old horror movies and any of the living dead movies cuz... lets face it the mummy is dead! The CG in this movie for its time is splendid, the points when Imhotep's corpse jaw moves around on his face, turning flesh to rot and rot to flesh... that was brilliant. The sand storms caused by his travel and even the point when he tries to eat Fraser with a sand storm were well done. The blending between CG and mummy's in the final battles were spot on. The acting was... well what can I say? It was what it was. Every person did well in there rolls, right down to the little brat boy chicken poop of a brother, the "I'll take what I can get" Beni, and the piggish prison guard. Rachel Weisz is a goddess simple as that. I saw this movie before I got my eyes upon a copy of the original, but was pleased to see how well the update kept to the universal monster once I had a chance to view it. Overall the entire movie was/is a welcomed hour and a half.